It takes a long time just
To Write the word Home²
Without just One Nest – the
Bird would call the World Home³
Home is where there’s one to Love!
Home is where there’s one to Love us!⁴
Home: those Caressing Appeals, those Soft
Touches wafted through the air, those invisible
Little hands Pulling and Tugging – all One way⁵
We Pluck Threads out of the Air and make a Home⁶
Let’s think where we have our Real Home and
Then Consider how we may Come Thither⁷
There is No Place that Cannot be Home⁸
Where thou Art – that – is Home⁹
Without a history of Choice –
No Dwelling can be a Home¹⁰
¹ Susan Griffin, To the Far Corners of a Fractured World
² Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
³ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
⁴ Charles Swain, Home Is Where There Is One to Love Us
⁵ Kenneth Graham, The Wind in the Willows
⁶ Haruki Murakami tr. Jay Rubin, 1Q84
⁷ The Seafarer tr. Richard Hamer
⁸ Audre Lorde, School Note
⁹ Emily Dickinson, Where Thou Art
¹⁰ John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos