“The self you leave behind is only a skin you have outgrown. Don't grieve for it. Look to the wet, raw, unfinished self, the one you are becoming. The world, too, sheds its skin: politicians, cataclysms, ordinary days.” SelfPoetryChangeBecomingPoem Book:Olive Street transfer Source: Olive Street transfer
“The panther that has stalked you since you were a child is old now. No longer wild, and tired of guarding the treasure you yourself left behind - blind and deaf, she will give it all to you if you just let her go.” WritingAgePoetryLetting Go Book:How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice Source: How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
