Disturbance
Some disturbances are small: a tree falls in a forest, creating a light gap. Some are huge: a tsunami knocks open a nuclear power plant.
[D]isturbance is always at the middle of things: the term does not refer us to a harmonious state before disturbance. Disturbances follow other disturbances. Thus all landscapes are disturbed; disturbance is ordinary . . . Whether a disturbance is bearable or unbearable is a question worked out through what follows it: the reformation of assemblages.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, “The Life of the Forest,” Chapter 11 in The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Use the prompt to inspire your work in any form (poetry or prose; fiction of any genre; creative nonfiction, essay, or memoir).
Log into our virtual meeting at 8pm here.
If you would like to post your work to our blog, visit Submittable after 7pm to upload your work. We will do our best to publish everything we receive.