The Good Knot
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There is in each of us a hard knotthat must be loosened, fingeredand learned by heart,so that we can untie it in the darkof our days and go free.
When we find it, the hands begintheir quiet work of acceptance,eyes follow every move,while a voice inside says, "No,this is not it," or "Yes, this is,"
and sings. [End Page 114]
Jerome Gagnon lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he has worked as a teacher and freelance journalist. A graduate of San Francisco State University's Creative Writing Program, his poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Crosswinds, Archaeopteryx, Crab Creek Review, Madison Review, Xanadu, Poetry and Place (anthology), Haiku Presence (U.K.), and elsewhere. He is the author of one chapbook, Pages from the Blue Sun. jgpopcorn@yahoo.com.
