Poetry is less bound by time and circumstance than any other of the arts; good poetry comes almost directly from a man’s mind, and senses and blood-stream, and no one can predict the man.
Robinson Jeffers
Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return! ++++
Herman Melville++++
Moby Dick
'What we ask of writers is that they guarantee the survival of what we call human, in a world where everything appears inhuman.'
Italo Calvino
“… Fall down seven times, get up eight.” … Japanese proverb
West Pacific Review 
You find the coolest stuff….love this
Thank you. This performance is very close to many things important to me – zen, death, behaviour that reflects our animal nature, our natural grace, our shadow.
This piece also touched me deeply. I belong to a dance collective, meeting weekly and dancing intuitively in the same spirit. We’re finding that named and unnamed themes emerge as a certain graceful insight supports the collective dance, each of us embodying our own individual part in the play. I particularly love the title to this piece….a poem in itself.
Thank you for the story of your personal connection.