It doesn't matter when you write the story down
I don't sleep much and sometimes
I count although I am not a numbers person maybe
I would be better off saying some words whooping crane
but I try numbers they never work even lucky numbers
like 11 and then I think of the poems and stories I haven't
written yet but I am too tired to get up and write them down
like the story Breena told last night at our Clarke sisters dinner
at our favorite Syrian restaurant where I pretend to be
a fake Clarke sister and we a small writing group we
tell stories because writing is a story after all Breena reminded us
of the two women who come every year to the writing festival in Hobart
two women who'd been mother in laws and when their children
got divorced they said we don't have to get divorced just because
they did so they didn't and although I didn't write the story down
in the middle of the night, counting instead, I wrote it now.