Sometimes I can relate to Jim Harrison

The Home

If my body is my home

what is this house full of blood?

within my skin? I can't leave it

for a moment but finally will. It knows

up and down, sideways, the texture

of the future and the remnants of the past.

It accepts moods as law no matter

how furtively they slip in and out

of consciousness. It accepts dreams as law

of a different sort as if they came from

a body well hidden within its own.

He says, "Pull yourself together," but he

already is. An old voice says, "stay close to home."

Jim Harrison

"In Search of Small Gods"