Cellular Turnover

Today’s draft comes from my morning pages. Sometimes I just get on a riff about something, and this morning it was cellular biology for some reason. (My limited knowledge of it, anyway.) This is sort of a continuation of the thoughts from yesterday’s draft, and, like yesterday’s, it feels a bit like a collection of ideas that will eventually be broken apart and reassigned to other bits of writing.

I’m also aware that a lot of fire and heat images are coming out in my writing. It’s autumn in the upper Midwest, and I think the chill is influencing my imagination.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIt's not the same you.Call it mitosis,call it apoptosis,division and death on a well-understood cycle. Or if you're feeling otherwise -- Call it your spirit turning on a new heat source,burning it all to the ground like an autumn prairie firepreparing the ground for next year's blooms.