Song

Selected by Amy Frykholm

Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

Song

The world is full of loss; bring, wind, my love,
My home is where we make our meeting-place,
And love whatever I shall touch and read
Within that face.

Lift, wind, my exile from my eyes;
Peace to look, life to listen and confess,
Freedom to find to find to find
That nakedness.

Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) was an American poet, essayist, biographer, novelist, screenwriter, and political activist. This poem was included in The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine, edited by Don Share and Christian Wiman (University of Chicago, 2012), p. 30.

Selected by Amy Frykholm: amy@journeywithjesus.net

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