"Standing by the Water Thanking It"
A Collage Poetics of Feeling
Dear Friends,
Your collective response to last week’s letter, “Do Not Look Away,” would offer hope to anyone in the grip of despair about the uncertainty of these times. As I read your reflections, in response, I began to see a poem of your words woven into three poems you shared.
Today’s essay is that poem that emerged . . . from you.1
Permit me to orient you.