I draw my strength from friends both near and far.
the distance of a room, a town, a world, who can tell?
there is in me the rising of a star
for every love I’ve known, who makes me well
(This fragment existed as an unpublished draft from the time I wrote it in 2013 until finally released into the wild, as it were, in July 2018. Such is the writer’s life, sometimes.)
The Search For Integrity 