Tag: seeing the big picture
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June 12, 2009 10:34 AM EDT --
Once I was counseled by a wolf.
He spoke from the center of madness,
ravenous . . .
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January 04, 2007 11:20 PM EST --
Secret histories,
shrouds lifted to converse with
the bones of flowers
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June 05, 2007 12:41 AM EDT --
"Everyone has a place in history. Mine is clouds." - Richard Brautigan
Whenever I am witness . . .
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July 21, 2009 02:10 PM EDT --
What is it about how
you fill up an ice tray
that reminds me of the
difference among snowflakes?
Or why . . .
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May 14, 2007 01:21 AM EDT --
Her father lays dying in a hospital bed on the fourth floor. He is ninety-five. My mother has been there off and on, mostly on, for the last two weeks. He has lived in a little apartment my parents built . . .
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February 28, 2009 10:07 AM EST --
She stretches and yawns. It is just before dawn
I think she wants love and I stroke her small frame.
But she noses toward the door and stifles a bark. . . .
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August 05, 2007 08:07 PM EDT --
Words grand as iceberg
float oceans among oceans
tying sea to sky
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March 24, 2007 05:34 PM EDT --
I rose to the sounds of fish weeping
Wind in the palms echoed lament
Shadows covered over the glint of the moon
dancing silver on their tears and their scales
I tried to console . . .
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July 17, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
Fleeting secret songs
Into the ears of the sun
Wine for wooden hearts
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January 28, 2008 10:18 PM EST --
She will cut glass tonight.
She will wait until the dogs are walked and fed
and I settle in to cringe, thank god,
at the president's last
State-of-the-Union. . . .
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June 24, 2009 09:01 PM EDT --
You can break into song for Sitting Bull, Hoka Hey!, of visions at Greasy Grass, or how he was murdered . . .
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November 20, 2007 09:08 PM EST --
Flowing in rivers,
oblique, crabwise and askance,
passing in crosswalks,
a terse kiss at the delta
among these oceans of soul.
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