This poem is called Home


    Home is where the heart lies
      and sometimes dies
      and gets lifted up
      or walked upon.
    Home is where the feet soak
      after long roads
      walking.
    Home is what the mind is
      always trying to get away
      from, and the feet can
      never point to, and the
      nose is always sniffing for.
    Home is when the dame breaks
      and you're asleep and don't
      notice a thing until its
      too late and you might
      as well go back to sleep.
    Home is where the song begins
      softly and doesn't end
      until you get back to where
      it started.
    Home's that wall you keep staring at,
      the rose that wont bloom,
      that place you're always going to,
      that dream you keep waking from.
    Home's when the sun won't set
      because you're sitting there
      watching like a child waiting
      for the ice cream truck.
    Home has no beginning. Home is just around the corner.
    Home's that itch on your ass.
    Home's that tune you keep humming.
    Home is in the Redwoods, like
      giants watching every
      move you make.
    Home's on the coast, on the docks.
    In a cafe - a day cafe -
      a night cafe - any day,
      any cafe.
    Home is the shooting star that
      everybody else saw and for
      the rest of the night you're
      wondering what you missed.
    Home's that cage you're trapped in,
      that bridge you're burning,
      that stone you're kicking,
      as you keep on walking,
      trying to stop the talking
      that's telling you to turn
      around because you're going
      in the wrong direction.
    Home is that thought that keeps
      coming to you every time you
      see the dome of the stars.
    Home is that hole in your stomach
      that keeps getting bigger.
    Home is the sun on the other side of
      the world and all you can
      see is its reflection on the
      moon.
    Home, it's those glasses you're looking
      out of, that key hole you're
      peeping into, that mirror
      that's staring at you.
    Home is the parking lot you're sitting in.
    Home is where you drink when you're
      too tired to go anywhere else.
    Home is where you go to be alone.
    Home is where everybody is always
      plaguing you.
    Home is the vineyard where the grapes of
      wrath are grown.
    Home, it's the hill the sun never sets behind, the lamp that keeps burning,
      the fountain that's still flowing, the heart that keeps right on beating.



- Nathan Sidoli, Sebastopol, 1999

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