Back in my other home office in another city. On the wall here I have Lost by David Wagoner "In a Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke and the unbearably powerful poem by Nigerian poet Ken Saro-Wiwa The True Prison
also "I know It's a Bad Bad World But" by John Grey. Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.