“The descent
made up of despairs
and without accomplishment
realizes a new awakening :
which is a reversal
of despair.
For what we cannot accomplish, what
is denied to love,
what we have lost in the anticipation—
a descent follows,
endless and indestructable”
—William Carlos Williams,
Paterson
“Don’t it make you wanta go home, now?
Don’t it make you wanta go home?
All God’s children get weary when they roam,
Don’t it make you wanta go home?
Don’t it make you wanta go home?”