William Stafford: Cutting Loose

Cutting Loose

Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason,

you sing. For no reason, you accept

the way of being lost, cutting loose

from all else and electing a world

where you go where you want to.

Arbitrary, a sound comes, a reminder

that a steady center is holding

all else. If you listen, that sound

will tell you where it is and you

can slide your way past trouble.

Certain twisted monsters

always bar the path -- but that's when

you get going best, glad to be lost,

learning how real it is

here on earth, again and again.

~ William Stafford ~

(Dancing With Joy, ed. by Roger Housden)

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