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Sunday, August 16, 2020

Connor Orrico - Three poems

1. home (n.)

to long to be
home

ham (Old English), 
"dwelling place, house, 
abode, fixed residence; estate; 

village; region, country,"
from *haimaz (Proto-Germanic),
“home”

place

/ hem (Old Frisian)
/ hemir/heima (Old Norse)
/ hjem (Danish)

/ heem (Middle Dutch)
/ heim (German)
/ haims (Gothic)

history

from *(t)koimo- (PIE),
root *tkei- "to settle, dwell, be
home;"

perhaps a story of being
& ubeity -- of person & place; 
homestead homeostasis

to belong
home