Diving in to...

Photo by Gypsy P. Ray

After I shared my SE final project with a mentor, he directed me to Adrienne Rich's "Diving Into the Wreck," which seems apropos, if we read her diver metaphor as wry commentary on the search for stories, for meaning, for conquest of the unknown/other (be this concept or person or...). It applies because we move into a space altogether new, armed with our personal / professional "book of myths," and still "it is easy to forget / what [we] came for / among so many who have always / lived here."


The poem has been subject to myriad interpretations, some seemingly inconsonant with one another. That's precisely the point; her consistence and precision of metaphor paradoxically afford breathing room so that we can make of it what we will. And so, consider it a send-off greeting, our very own productive coming-of-age initiation.

Coupled with Jeff's recommendation for Shallow Water Dictionary, I'm suh-wimmin' in inspiration! [Insert boos and hisses for bad pun.]

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