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THE HOUSE BELONGING of \ DAVID WHYTE Front Cover: Pace Barn, Southhampton,NY PaulRocheleau,Photographer©1992 All Rights Reserved THE HOUSE OF BELONGING BOOKS BY DAVID WHYTE POETRY Songsfor Coming Home Where Many Rivers Meet Fire in the Earth The House ofBelonging PROSE The HeartAroused: Poetry and the Preservation ofthe Soul in CorporateAmerica Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage ofIdentity THE HOUSE of BELONGING Poems by DAVIDWHYTE 2 (/" VI 2 MANY RIVERS PRESS LANGLEY,WASHINGTON This book is dedicated to Brendan Wliyte and the house he will make from his own belonging. COPYRIGHT © 1997 DAVIDWHYTE ISBN 0-9621524-3-9 1st Printing: 1997 2nd Printing: 1997 3rd Printing: 1998 4th Printing: 1999 5th Printing: 2002 LOST Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must askpermission to know it and be known. Theforest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. Ifyou leave it, you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. Ifwhat a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are.You must let itfind you. David Wagoner copyright 1976 1 CONTENTS BELONGING TO THE HOUSE I. page 3 This Life 4 The House ofBelonging 7 At Home 10 It Happens to ThoseWho Live Alone 13 Winter Child 14 What I MustTell Myself BELONGING TO THE NIGHT II. 23 Sweet Darkness 24 All theTrueVows 26 What to RememberWhenWaking 29 TheWinter ofListening 34 TheWell ofStars 37 TheJourney BELONGING TO PLACES III. 4 Yorkshire 47 Elderflower 51 TenYears Later 53 Four Horses 56 The HorseWhisperer 59 Tienamen (The Man in front oftheTank) CONTENTS (continued) BELONGING TO THOSE KNOW IV. I ige 67 Brendan 70 Edward 75 Dougie 79 The Hawthorn 82 Two Strangers 86 WorkingTogether 88 Loaves and Fishes 89 This Poem BelongsToYou 90 The Sun 96 TheTruelove Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/houseofbelongingOOwhyt
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