In Lisel Mueller's poem, "Monet Refuses the Operation," the artist addresses a surgeon who wants to "correct" his vision: "I will not return to a universe/of objects that don’t know each other,/as if islands were not the lost children/of one great continent." Having moved into a house in a town where I've never lived before, soon after unpacking I noticed how objects placed in unfamiliar spaces recognized each other, making a familiar home for us, inside and out.

From, "Beginner's Mind."