Home Must Be a Daily Re-Creation

Music: Art of the Fugue, Contrapunctus 1. By J.S. Bach. Sequencer unknown. Modified by David Grossman.

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Home must be a daily re-creation As two make whole a space not wholly theirs. Places are part passion, part sensation, Pending love to place the charms and chairs. Yearning can appropriate the earth, Annexing stone to self and eye to sea; Nor can the wind bring wandering souls to birth, Needing love to wake their will-to-be. In shared dominion domicile sits, Vestal fires lighting hearth and heart, Equal reigns derived from equal writs, Restorations none can tell apart. So must home be both gift and cherished choice, An outer bulwark and an inner voice, Requiring love to work its wonders well, Yet well worth loving for both pith and shell.