Short Spiritual and Friendship
Poems Pack the Power of a
.44 Magnum Delivering Us
From Stress and Stagnation

Serenity from spiritual and friendship poems?

Zach Finch, visiting lecturer at Dartmouth College writing for Jacket magazine, reminds us Walt Whitman "often celebrated his bodily proximity with others and the ecstasy of even casual contact with strangers, as in this moment from Song of Myself (section 27)" ...

Mine is no callous shell,
I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.

I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.