homing instinct

flat, drab, mechanical, anachronistic, archaistic,

the language of business

platitudes

hunting for poetry in strange places

the learning of how to do something really well (Gary Snyder)

and preferably something domesticated like cooking or cleaning or embroidery

or not

or the body and the brain of the body (Robert Bly)

or is it the soul of the body

or the body’s emotions or redness or mechanisms, remote access

or political the passion the drive Marjorie coming to read or

Adrienne quoted or

Mary Oliver

I walked away so far away and now heading back oh yes