Right now, in this moment, what is it you need to hear? Julie Potiker helps you focus on that question through this guided meditation. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Reciting Poems to Each Other in a Difficult Time", by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Reciting Poems to Each Other in a Difficult Time, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

It might have looked as if we stayed

in our respective squares—

nine separate rooms made of pixels—

but for an hour the poems we shared leaped

through the screen and into our bloodstream

until all our lines were gloriously blurred

and our wounds were gently tended

by the medicine of Berry’s day-blind stars

and Wellwood’s ferocious dance of no hope,

Hopkins’s shining from shook foil

and Roethke’s wondering Which I is I?

In another time, there would have been

a fire at the center. Someone would play a drum.

But in this time, I felt it inside me, the fire,

as poems blazed to meet the great cold.

I felt it inside me, the human drum,

that reminds me the heart beats

not for itself, but the world.

For an hour we spooned each other

the honey of poetry. Alone now,

I still taste it, unfiltered and raw,

this astonishing sweetness on my lips,

this salt of lyric communion,

still feel the warmth of that blaze,

the spark still dazzling in the dark.

–Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

from A Hundred Falling Veils

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