Refuge

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the
kind of world we want to live in.

                                             ~ Frances Moore Lappé ~

Four walls of books,

upstairs and down,

thin music sheets amid them;

winds and strings on couch, stand,

floor, and shelf;

greenery in pottery and teapots,

waving underwater in the fish-free tank

only inhabited by my blown glass

never-will-sicken-and-die-

Thai fighting fish, hand-painted;

upstairs and down,

art, not all, though close to, solely,

egotistically mine;

cookbooks ranked by reach:

unfavored high and

packed immovable,

favored meatless tipped out,

removable;

dishware decorated

with herbs and flowers

to warm New England winters,

and color comfort foods . . .

and should I dare to open

the outside door and listen . . .

wind chimes and water,

finches and frogs,

to be identified by

four walls of books.

Quotation found at this resource: http://ivyjoy.com/quote.shtml. Frances Moore Lappé is the author of Diet for a Small Planet.