Every day, write down at least one detail you noticed. Don’t worry about making it sound like poetry. Just give enough information that the note can call up the full memory later. [...] do that for some stretch of time—a few weeks, a few months. Then go through the journal and pick your five favorite details, the ones that interested or affected you most. Write a poem that includes those five details. The trick here is not to pick the details you think will go together well in a poem. As a workaround for that, you can transcribe 15-20 details on slips of paper, mix them together and pull five at random. The number five isn’t super important. The point is, you must weave together a poem out of those details that were not recorded with the intention of going together.

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