Poetry

As it has been said:

Love and a cough

cannot be concealed.

Even a small cough.

Even a small love.

Poetry fearlessly enters the horizon of the unknowable, the fuzzy. It lives there. That is why it is so significant in an uncertain, threatened time like ours.

I want to know

if you are prepared to live in a world

with its harsh need

to change you. If you can look back

with firm eyes

saying this is where I stand.

— David Whyte, 'Self-Portrait' [from Fire in the Earth]

Poetry knows the spaces of transition; it traverses and expands them. Poems live in uncertainty.