Galway Kinnell: Sometimes It Is Necessary To Reteach Something Its Loveliness

 Lovely. 💗

Photo by Molly

David Bedrick writes: 

 

I had to share these lines of poetry from Galway Kinnell in my workshop around shame and neurodiversity yesterday.

BECAUSE in the center of our difficulties, our experience of being outliers or even marginalization, there lies a "bud" that can flower.

I love Galway's vision of reteaching a thing its loveliness by putting words and touch on the "brow of the flower."

Tears just rereading his words.

"The bud

stands for all things,

even for those things that don’t flower,

for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;

though sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness,

to put a hand on its brow

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.”

 

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 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42683/saint-francis-and-the-sow