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A Listening Ritual for this Fall: Poetry Unbound

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Forest Knows Where You Are, You Must Let It Find You

This poem is written in the imperative, the tense that you use and grammar to give an order. The first line of the poem is just two words, stand still. It's written from a voice that isn't sentimental. There's a sense that the person is lost and perhaps not only lost, but then distressed that they're lost. And this poem has a voice in it that's calling your attention to say, just because you're lost, it doesn't mean that you have to be distressed. Even if you are lost, there's something to be found there. If you leave it, you may come back again saying here, what an amazing thing I have made this place around you

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