Roethke, from ‘The Middle of a Roaring World’

To Possess or to be possessed by one’s identity?

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The self, the anti-self in dire embrace.

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Instead of embracing God, he hugs himself.

~ Theodore Roethke,
The Middle of a Roaring World.
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