Reduced to Joy,<\/a> has just been published. The book contains seventy-three poems, retrieved and shaped over the last thirteen years, about the nature of working with what we\u2019re given till it wears us through to joy. For the next few months, I\u2019d like to share poems from the new book with you. <\/i><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
Each of us is made up of eternal forces\u2014part masculine, part feminine, part animal. Often, our creativity and our proximity to our aliveness depends on how well we know these forces as they visit us and live in us. This poem tries to explore my own relationships with these inner forces of life.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Three Faces<\/strong><\/p>\nI have carried three faces<\/p>\n
across my life, though from within,<\/p>\n
it\u2019s clear, they have carried me:<\/p>\n
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a woman who can stare through<\/p>\n
the leaves of any tree, who names the<\/p>\n
tree by the birds who sing in it<\/p>\n
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a man who works hard at<\/p>\n
clearing paths in order to stop<\/p>\n
where the path ends, and listen<\/p>\n
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and a small child with the heart<\/p>\n
of a horse, eager to sniff out any<\/p>\n
thing alive and run to it.<\/p>\n
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Together, they have led who I<\/p>\n
thought I was through openings<\/p>\n
wide enough for only<\/p>\n
what is essential.<\/p>\n
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A Question to Walk With: Describe the way your masculine energy, feminine energy, and animal energy show up in you. What is each trying to teach you?<\/i><\/p>\n
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