Return to the Heart

Kind Sir: Lost and of your same kind
I have turned around twice with my eyes sealed
and the woods were white and my night mind
saw such strange happenings, untold and unreal.

And opening my eyes, I am afraid of course
to look-this inward look that society scorns-
Still, I search in these woods and find nothing worse
than myself, caught between the grapes and the thorns.

Excerpt from "Kind Sir: These Woods"
By: Anne Sexton

Return to the Heart, 2019
cotton rug warp loom waste 21 x 35 inches