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In her book How to Read a Poem and Start a Poetry Circle, poet and friend of the Oracle Molly Peacock writes, I first fell in love with the word joy because it had a circle inside. She points out how the embedded O in the middle of the word mirrors the O of the mouth: shape of surprise, delight, awe. All things that have been scarce in recent times, and for some of us even longer. It is to be expected. We have had to take refuge in our own little chambers, cut off from the rest of the heart.