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Poem of the Month: August 2002

What We Want       What we want       is never simple.       We move among the things       we thought we wanted:       a face, a room, an open book       and these things bear our names--       now they want us.       But what we want appears       in dreams, wearing disguises.       We fall past,       holding out our arms       and in the morning         our arms ache.       We don't remember the dream,       but the dream remembers us.       It is there all day       as an animal is there       under the table,       as the stars are there       even in full sun. - Linda Pastan Journal prompts: What do you want? Write a list of things you've always wanted but never got. Choose one and write about its absence in your life. Write about something you thought you wanted, but discovered it wasn't what you had hoped it would be. Write a journal entry titled "One year from today..." and project what your life will be like in the summer of 2003. What will you have accomplished? What is left that still wants to be done?

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