The poet in the time of the world’s night
utters the holy that exceeds
the geometry of the heart’s
tangled lines,
this beautiful liminality.
Open and aware, I embrace
seeing differently,
the complexity of us.
Art, research, teaching –
not actions but
ways of life.
References
Heidegger, M. (1971). Poetry, Language, Thought. Trans. Albert Hofstadter. New York, Harper and Row.
Irwin, R. L. (2004). A/r/tography: A metonymic metissage. In A/r/tography: Rendering self through arts-based living inquiry, ed. R.L. Irwin and A. de Cosson, 27–38. Vancouver, BC: Pacific Educational Press.
Leggo, C. (2010). Writing a life: Representation in language and image. Transnational Curriculum Inquiry 7(2).