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Poetry in Passing
This free sampler is the companion to Poetry in Symmetry.
Poetry in Passing is a free sampler from Poetry in Symmetry, the complete collection of poems and fables by Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II.
We are all of us on a wire. The wire is thin and it is narrow, but it is solid, woven from everything that holds a life together: our feelings, our faith, our friends, our family. And no one crosses on skill alone. What steadies the equilibrist is the pole he carries, and the pole is Love.
Four movements
The wire, walked from the inside out
The Interior names what happens within one person at three in the morning: hope, doubt, forgiveness, joy.
The World gives those ideas bodies and street addresses — a luthier in Mittenwald who fixes a Stradivarius by moving it a fraction of an inch, a street vendor in Portoviejo who saves the life of the man who just humiliated him, a boy in Tromsø who walks up a mountain for six years.
The Inheritance carries across the tales of older traditions, retold rather than quoted: a boatwright who saves thirty years of shavings for a lost son, a swordsmith who folds his grief like steel, a confidence man ruined by a fake clock that gave a town the one thing he could never sell.
The Threshold turns the same question toward a mind made of code, and stops where we are actually standing: hand raised, deciding whether to knock.
One question underneath
What can be held, and what cannot
The hour, love, courage, a story. Everything worth having arrives free, to everyone at once, and cannot be hoarded.
Read it where it falls. If a poem here follows you out of the room, the rest of it is waiting.
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