From Room to Room by Terry Savoie

 

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From Room to Room

​– after Marie Ponsot

  

Arriving in this world, light-

starved, we begin, blinded, 

groping our way, going about

 

the business of beginning: 

feeling, praying, yet

carefully side-

 

stepping pit-

falls that, perhaps, 

imperil our progress.  

We push onward.  

 

So we soon discover ourselves 

reaching out for whatever may be 

in our way into that next dark room 

 

& the room after that into 

an inevitable return to our

place beyond the stars.

© Terry Savoie

Terry Savoie

Terry Savoie’s poetry has been included in over two hundred literary journals such as APR, Poetry (Chicago), Ploughshares, North American Review, Commonweal, American Journal of Poetry, and The Iowa Review, as well as in recent numbers of North Dakota Quarterly, One, and America, among others.

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