Poet Jane Hirshfield said "... the feeling I have about poem-writing (is) that it is always an exploration, of discovering something I didn't already know. Who I am shifts from moment to moment, year to year. What I can perceive does as well. A new poem peers into mystery, into whatever lies just beyond the edge of knowable ground."
I bring a different poem to the writing classes each week, not only to inspire but to introduce new poets to the group members.
The Medieval Coast by Michael Ondaatje
A village of stone-cutters. A village of soothsayers.
Men who burrow into the earth in search of gems.
Circus in-laws who pyramid themselves into trees.
Home life. A fear of distance along the southern coast.
Every stone-cutter has his secret mark, angle of his chisel.
In the village of soothsayers
bones of a familiar animal
guide interpretations.
This wisdom extends no more than thirty miles.
~ from Handwriting (McClelland & Stewart, 1998)