Drain-Refuel / Refuel-Drain (?)

Ongoing discovery, rediscovered, daily, Columbus “discovering” America: while I will fill a notebook with illegible scrawl – exorcisms – during the morning’s writing hours, I rarely open the thing in the afternoon and evening: there are no ideas itching to leap from brain to page, no moments of inspiration that solve the morning’s unsolvables.

I tell myself that it’s because, by the time the afternoon rolls around, I’ve tapped the well – reduced it to little more than a trickle – and that the...