Day 1

ORIGIN
By Christine Gay Dutton…

We all arise from beds and homes not chosen, and in time the fox will outwit you with treasures
beyond time and place.
As you navigate through, bring along a hum as your soundtrack to
needful ghosts arriving and departing
Let pleasure show itself with simple lines, a soft and gentle footstep and carried by only what is
needed, what can be used to spackle your edges and hold up your joists.
Save the embellishments for a time when the journey is easy and sure. Wait.
And you can bear the heavy weight for now, no longer shifting with ire from foot to foot.
Stay here. In the now, let your presence
be a present, wrapped simply, elegantly, love in brown paper and string

Christine Gay Dutton is originally from Rochester, NY and spent her early childhood in
the deep south in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. She is a first generation college
graduate with a Bachelors from Roberts Wesleyan. She now resides with her wife in
Northampton, Massachusetts, the home of Smith College. She began writing poetry in
1999 and her work has been published with Kota Press, Aileron, Deep Cleveland,
Poems for Peace, Survival & Beyond, and Identity Theory. She has participated in and
led a variety of workshops in the spirit of the methods of Amherst Writers & Artists. She
currently is a member of a BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ community of writers in Holyoke,
Massachusetts. When not writing, you might find her running along the Connecticut
River, practicing yoga at local farms or greeting every dog she happens upon.