The Way In

Sometimes the way to milk
     and honey is through the body.

The Spoonful of Milk – Marc Chagall

Sometimes the way in is a song.
But there are three ways in
     the world: dangerous, wounding,
and beauty.
To enter stone, be water.
To rise through hard earth, be plant
desiring sunlight, believing in water.
To enter fire, be dry.
To enter life, be food.

— Linda Hogan