The Inner Work

In Russian nesting dolls, the smallest
is the seed doll, signifying the soul.
Once you find her, what she holds
is dense and hard to open—
in a basic sense impossible.
But more than the portly mother,
she makes room for all the others,
even when she’s just the dream at their heart—
the hope or assurance of a solidity,
of a glory and its weight,
of a life become so true
that it intrinsically creates
around itself
and for everyone
space.

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