April 13, 2010

• In honor of National Poetry Month

  I have many favorite poets – T. S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, Mary Oliver….  What poetry I turn to depends entirely on mood – more than any other of my reading.  These days, Wendell Berry touches my soul more than most.  Try this one on:

  Traveling at Home

  Even in a country you know by heart
  it’s hard to go the same way twice.
  The life of going changes.
  The chances change and make a new way.
  Any tree or stone or bird
  can be the bud of new directions.  The
  natural correction is to make intent
  of accident.  To get back before dark
  is the art of going.
  ~Wendell Berry
  (from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., 1998)

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