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# The Way Towards Each Other
- URL: https://poetry101.love/the-way-towards-each-other/
- Published: 2020-12-27T20:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-24T16:31:07.000Z
- Description: by Jeni Couzyn
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Jeni Couzyn, Morning Memory, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

The way towards each other is through our bodies.  
Words are the longest distance you can travel  
So complex and hazardous you  
Lose your direction.

Time is no way either. A river mouth it opens  
To a mixing of waters, a tidal  
Diffusion, never  
a consummation.

In our bodies we are fallen in a thorn thicket.  
Out is a tearing apart, a letting of juices.  
Inside though is a pathway, a tremulous compensation–  
The possibility of touching.

Couzyn, Jeni. [The selected poems of Jeni Couzyn](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The%5FSelected%5FPoems%5Fof%5FJeni%5FCouzyn/iTUg-QEP1tcC?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). Toronto, Exile Editions, 2000.

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