It takes a long time just
To write the word Home.²
We pluck Threads out of
The Air and make a home—³
Without a history of Choice—
No dwelling can be a home.⁴
Home is where there’s one to Love—
Home is where there’s one to Love us!⁵
Home: those caressing appeals, those
Soft touches wafted through the air, those
Invisible little hands pulling & tugging—all one way.⁶
Let us think where we have our real Home and
Then consider how we may come thither …⁷
Without just one Nest—
The bird would call the world home—⁸
There is no place that cannot be home—⁹
Where thou art—that—is Home!¹⁰
¹ Susan Griffin, To the Far Corners of a Fractured World
² Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
³ Haruki Murakami tr. Jay Rubin, 1Q84
⁴ John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
⁵ Charles Swain, Home Is Where There Is One to Love Us
⁶ Kenneth Graham, The Wind in the Willows
⁷ The Seafarer tr. Richard Hamer
⁸ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
⁹ Audre Lorde, School Note
¹⁰ Emily Dickinson, Where Thou Art