Oh, well, remember I'm a linguist.

I wrote a poem about Always Coming Home and calligraphed it and sent it to Le Guin as a gift. She answered with a card, "It's good to be appreciated."

This was the poem:

In Three Syllables

Little Bear Woman,
Given All Gifts.
They are both with us,
hiding their names
in three syllables.

Left arm & right arm,
what's at the hinge?
The Hole in the Air,
become a well.

The ampersand in the sixth line was drawn like a heyiya-if.