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Exploring the positive possibilities of mistakes as sources of sources of learning, inspiration, discovery and reconciliation

So, when we set off prospecting/I wasn’t expecting,/not even suspecting,/we’d find El-Dorado

I shut the bin, tight,/and put it out in the road: / out of sight, out of mind. / But a place inside me, / tight shut for thirty years— / out of Africa: out of mind— / came open; came apart.

Knowing I’ve failed you, I’ve no way to constrain / the anguish and grief of that desolate ocean.

Bound in the graveyard’s wintry embrace, / Do you long, as I do, for the coming of spring, / For the soft healing waters that summer should bring, / Yet fear all the memories entombed in the ice?

All life’s struggles distilled and defined / in a tangible route to that famed mountaintop