“What would it mean to stand on the first page of the end of despair…”
–– Adrienne Rich
Dreams Before Waiting
A Writer’s Life Weekend Meditation–Write
“What would it mean to stand on the first page of the end of despair…”
–– Adrienne Rich
Dreams Before Waiting
A Writer's Life 
This is how it felt when I emigrated to South Africa at the beginning of Mandela’s presidency. It felt like that consistently for the first three years. In the fourth year, it began to be page two, in-fighting and corruption. But this poem was on my fridge the whole time.
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