| Here's to the man Who Builds his Home Here’s to the man who builds his home: strike on strike, two-by-four, sheet and lath, dim paths strung with uncoiled lightning; swing, greenhouse, studio; trees taken and saved; glass sheets for looking out, inviting light; every stone, angle, handle, shower-come- lately, nail, wire and pipe. Why does a man build a castle? How many can, sucked as they are into the maelstrom? What’s your answer, refugee on the run, latter-day Jack, lighting at last, like a common sparrow on his branch? When did you decide to carve life into that still forest, call it good? A man may forsake passion yet wield time’s lathe passionately, chiseling a home out of a pile of boards, growing lettuce, Swiss chard, children--hammering vision into form, learning at last that flowing chant: lose, love, let go.
Being in this house
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* SHIRLEY SULLIVAN is a poet, musician, counselor and theologian. She is a graduate of the second Sacred Service class of the School of Spiritual Psychology. She lives, writes and works in Denver Colorado.
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