Friday, July 22, 2011

LONGING

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Childhood trains us/to expect the great ocean/of time around us, /endless, and always more/of it rolling in and away. /... There will al...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

CAMPFIRE LULLABIES

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CAMPFIRE LULLABIES Real stories tonight , she says, not/made-up . Like what I did, summers when /I was her age: ---From “Real” by Luisa ...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

A LESSON IN YOGA

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A LESSON IN YOGA (After Letter to Attention) If this were a glimpse at dying and how the mind, fragile as it is, could pull one back t...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

THE LOST MARKER

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THE LOST MARKER It will remain silent, an abandoned artifact, a gravestone cross for the perching raven that would be a swoop away from i...
Monday, July 18, 2011

CLEANING A GRAVESTONE: WHAT DO WE KNOW OF ETERNITY?

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CLEANING A GRAVESTONE Has anyone come back from this defiled form and mapped out ways to get back to that eternity we claim as heirs to,...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

A RAISON D'ETRE

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A RAISON D’ETRE Imagine if all of us were caterpillars, all inching toward that one branch or leaf whence we spread our wings to carr...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

THE PANTOMIME

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THE PANTOMIME A wren’s pantomime on the brittle branch is so much like presiding over life down here.   Shape up, toe the line, be civi...
Friday, July 15, 2011

WARNINGS: YOKED HAIKUS

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WARNINGS: YOKED HAIKUS Two birds singing songs say similar things meaning different warnings. Ethereal notes wake the doleful soul to ...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

FEVER

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FEVER My errands get simpler now: cut marks On trees, branches, rocks, leaves, walls, wherever I know you will wind your way coming home....
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

A LEITMOTIF

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A   LEITMOTIF   Would the cup of my palms nestle you? Give you a nestling’s echoing chamber, where you could trill all you want or can?  ...