catapult magazine

Supplication

by L.L. Barkat

David Whyte says this about joy, beginning with the word “grief”…

We spend…too little time experiencing the griefs themselves. The result is that these griefs remain hidden and never open us to our joys. It is as if the two are simply two ends of the same whole. Remove the experience at one end of the scale by curtailing our capacity for grief and the whole emotional body shrinks to a bland middle, curtailing equally our capacity for joy." (The Heart Aroused)

So here is my joyful poem…

“Supplication”
I want something
warm to hold onto,
besides my own
shoulders and hips
in the dark.