A Mirror of CharityBetween chores –                                    hulling strawberries                                    answering letters –or between poems,returning to the mirrorto see if I’m there.(A Poet’s Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov, p.245)What are these few lines of Denise Levertov trying to communicate?  If a poet or an artist returns to the mirror to see if she ‘is there’, what about us […]

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