The Hollow at the Throat

Sit upright, the chin slightly lowered, eyes closed. Place attention in the soft hollow of the throat, the spot where you would feel a swallow or the start of a song. Sense that this hollow is not solid tissue but an open chamber, a quiet room where words live before they are spoken. Stay there in the silence before any word. Many sentences you almost said today began here, then turned back. Some of them deserved to come out. Some of them were better held in this room. Sit with the room itself.