Go short and deep

a flower and some planets

Award-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels dares you to go short and deep. Try it!

 

My writing prompt is extremely short but rather difficult. Write a single line that communicates an absolute maximum of meaning: relationship, music, insight, emotion. A line one would whisper — or shout — if one’s life depended on it. How can one maximize that brevity?

 

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