It’s a “wordsmithery” – Philip Marston's workshop for poems, plays, and stories of far distant countries, times and visions. As in most workshops, there are plenty of projects to be seen. Some are polished and ready for shipping; some await a new burst of inspiration; some are barely begun. A wordsmith is a worker and workshops are made for work!
...but what kind of a workshop? A workshop for wordsmithing, of course!
And wordsmithing needs a home, a space where the craft is performed. As a blacksmith goes to his smithery to swing a hammer and pump his bellows, so the wordsmith repairs to his wordsmithery, with pen, paper, ink, time – and keyboard.
Some wordsmitheries resemble an office; others a stuffy den, a sun-drenched deck, or even a bustling café. Don’t be deceived! Those are but appearances.
The wordsmithery itself is unseen, and far more interesting. It may be vast as a prairie yet narrow as a cleft in the mountains; brilliant as a sunset yet dull as an overcast sky; parched as a desert yet damp as an impossibly green meadow. And yes, it may be all those things at the very same time.
Whatever their appearance, wordsmitheries in fact are boundless: far countries of wide, welcoming lands; of wild passion and danger; gentleness and love; ‘of wisdom and folly…of all that roils the human heart; of passion, and death and tales of the wine-dark sea’.
All that, and more. After all, a wordsmithery is all in the mind….
Philip Marston is a retired Washington, D.C. energy lawyer, now embarked on a new adventure as a poet, playwright, and storyteller.
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