The Circle is what Matters – v3

The family, the circle

lines of heredity, or kinship

tremors on the web, the arc

the circle shattered

The beauty in a way broken

a piece removed, ripped

torn from the fabric

jagged, in pain and in loss

Open wounds remaining

a maw of pain exposed

yet the circle is what matters

coming together, urgent

to heal the damage

Yet shards still there

encapsulated, remaining

waiting under heavy scar tissue

The whole, the mirror cracked,

broken, pieces hanging, exposed

the circle, the family

unwound, unraveled

shards sharp, within, retained

Their pain real, remaining

cutting into flesh, through skin

all who would touch them

Walls of the circle breached

the dike of our sorrow

flowing out in pain, in blood

the cost of the schism

of the picking of sides

unfair, the choices,

The circle is what matters

walling off the outside

edited March 25, 2014

The Circle is what Matters – v3

edited March 8, 2014

The Circle is what Matters – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-circle-is-what-matters-v2.html

edited/new poem March 7, 2014

The Circle is what Matters

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-circle-is-what-matters.html

edited March 7, 2014

The Circle is Important – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-circle-is-important-v4.html

edited further July 3, 2012

The Circle is Important – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/circle-is-important-v3.html

edited July 3, 2012

The Circle is Important – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/circle-is-important-v2.html

July 2, 2012

The Circle is Important

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/circle-is-important.html

started writing after reading

“The Mirror Shattered”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/mirror-shattered.html

July 2, 2012

at the Poet’s Corner

monthly poetry readings

Suncook Senior Center

July 2, 2012

&

Chapter Two of book ,

A General Theory of Love

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375709223/104-5531350-4503140

entitled “Kits, Cats, Sacks, and Uncertainty”

with Gene Wolfe quote

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/76285

&

written after attending

and beginning to read the handouts from

NH Bar Continuing Legal Education seminar

http://www.collaborativedivorcenews.com/2012/03/practical-neuro-literacy-where-divorce.html

http://www.legalspan.com/nhbar/catalog.asp?ItemID=20120327-414189-71832

“PRACTICAL NEURO-LITERACY”

Where Divorce Practice,

Neuroscience, and Legal

Conflict Resolution Intersect

with Pauline H. Tesler

http://www.lawtsf.com/teslerpro.html

http://www.blogger.com/profile/07519487529449708253

http://www.collaborativepractice.com/_t.asp?T=TrainersDir&M=8&MS=7&S=VIEW&ID=1849091615

June 14, 2012

&

triune brain

http://www.buffalostate.edu/orgs/bcp/brainbasics/triune.html

http://www.psycheducation.org/emotion/triune%20brain.htm

&

mirror neurons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron

&

Amygdala hijack - wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala_hijack

&

subliminal persuasion

priming

video – “Derren Brown - Mind Control”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjueOXCy3OM

&

It Takes a Village

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Village

&

It Takes a Family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Family

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