Chaff

In this manuscript of poems, I seek to address the seeming polarities of sacrifice and excess with respect to the sacred and to show that not only may they co-exist, but that they may actually be viewed as one and the same. With respect to the idea of chaff, the central uniting metaphor of the manuscript, the point I'm working toward is that there actually is no chaff unless everything is chaff--that, in terms of both the inner and outer life, asceticism may have its place, but it should not be looked upon as ''higher" than abundance. The life of the soul is the life of the body, and vice versa; the life of the mind is also the life of the world.