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.
Theories of Personal Identity by Jan Zwicky
The photograph; the past life; the long lost black sheep who’s become the shoe that fits. The ghost town, a.k.a. the rummage bin, that old sweet song. The suitcase; the hotel room; the surprise box lunch; the plain brown wrapper. The umbrella someone opened in the house. The alphabet, or perhaps I mean a river, or a well. The skeleton in the closet. The writing on the wall. The telltale heart. ~ from Robinson’s Crossing (Brick Books, 2004)