tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79431244443472688942024-03-05T20:31:07.130-08:00D.R.'S SPOONThoughts, photographs, poetry, music etc.D.R. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13930377917764266126noreply@blogger.comBlogger387125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7943124444347268894.post-78200155557570151992015-12-18T14:25:00.003-08:002015-12-18T14:25:25.094-08:00Two of my best friends Tom Kryss and ingrid Swanberg.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />D.R. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13930377917764266126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7943124444347268894.post-81139318293285505132015-12-16T20:15:00.003-08:002015-12-16T20:15:28.257-08:00SHALL I CONTUNUE TO DO THIS?I've been thinking about posting to this Blogger page again, which I haven't done since May. I'd like some feedback if you think I<br />
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Before the shadows got too soft</div>
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In visions. He was a surgeon</div>
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Of sorts who barely left a mark</div>
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Greek boating songs or slice</div>
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A Valentine of brightly colored</div>
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Birds into a strange collection</div>
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Of coins much desired by the </div>
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Herdsmen of the upper terrace.</div>
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He worked from dusk until dark</div>
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During the long Summer days</div>
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Soft whistles and his conjuring</div>
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Of small winged animals seen</div>
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Bargaining with him over the souls</div>
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Horses had left with them. That</div>
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When the birds reach the place between </div>
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The house and the garage, where the prayer</div>
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Flags hang, they turn sideways, so their bodies</div>
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Are vertical. There is not quite enough room to </div>
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Pass any other way. Why they don’t choose</div>
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The fly above the passageway confounds me.</div>
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Perhaps there is a kind of horizon there</div>
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We cannot see, that pushes them, flashing.</div>
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The boards of the thing are gone completely.</div>
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I ask you why the snows continue?</div>
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A malignancy of phantoms devours</div>
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The space that has been eased.</div>
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In the Catoptric shroud within which </div>
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We dwell, time is stuffing memories</div>
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Into its pockets. Always looking over</div>
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Its shoulder to see if we’ve noticed.</div>
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I ask you, before I can begin thinking,</div>
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What has happened to all horizons?</div>
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You begin ripping up even more boards.</div>
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The passages become narrower and narrower.</div>
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I can see the prayer flags in the distance.</div>
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We seem to be traveling extremely quickly.</div>
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It was reported that in one village</div>
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The enemy gathered all the men into one place</div>
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Then shot them in head in the presence of their wives.</div>
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One of the women had shouted</div>
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“Have you no respect for life at all?’, to them.</div>
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They shot her in the head rather than answer</div>
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Her question. The passage became even narrower.</div>
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I am looking up at the stars tonight.</div>
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I can see that there are many fresh stars.</div>
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They seem to crowd against one another</div>
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Until there is little room between them.</div>
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Somewhere in here we will have to turn</div>
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Our bodies vertically and lift ourselves</div>
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Above the fluttering prayer flags.</div>
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We have only seconds to decide when that is.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I’m walking in the labyrinth </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And the labyrinth begins to wander</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Away from me. I have heard</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">About a ancient moon from Chaldea</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That can decipher the climates</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of the heart and yet refuses</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To do so until only the legend of its existence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remains and even this is confined in a room</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So silent it is said to exist only in a mirror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will go there and you may go with me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you would like to see the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kingdoms conquered, to learn to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Regret that the infinite can exist</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In simple stories and uncountable</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rivers that flow through everything</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We give meaning to every day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We forget or do not wish to name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And there you may want to ask this same</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a footprint toward the center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I no longer recall where</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I acquired it and since I am going</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Out to sea again, I have no use for it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At all. Perhaps you will make something</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Truly memorable of this day without</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Getting lost in it. It is not so easy to do. </span></div>
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D.R. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13930377917764266126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7943124444347268894.post-66584709194115863992015-02-25T01:02:00.001-08:002015-02-25T01:02:15.775-08:00Ilona Comes With The Rain - Alvaro Mutis - from The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This page from Ilona Comes With The Rain is full of Mutis magic.<br />
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Life with Ilona was invariably lived on two levels, or rather in two simultaneous and parallel directions. On the one hand, your feet were always on the ground, you were always intelligently but non obsessively alert to what each day offered in response to the routine questions of surviving. on the other hand, imagination and unbounded fantasy suggested a spontaneous and unexpected sequence of scenarios that were always aimed at the radical subversion of every law ever written or established. . This was a permanent, organic, rigorous subversion that never permitted travel on the beaten path, the road preferred by most people, the traditional patterns that offer protection to those whom Ilona, without emphasis or pride but without any concessions either, would call "the others."<br />
Woe to any companion of hers who betrayed the slightest inclination to accommodate to those models. Without hesitation she would cut all ties, all relations, all commitment to anyone who succumbed to such unpardonable weakness, and she would never again mention the person who had gone over to "the others," that is to say, who no longer existed. For those of us who lived with her for a time, one glance ws enough to warn us that we were approaching the danger zone. Abdul told a story that illustrates Ilona's principles very well. once, when they were traveling together, Abdul wanted to send a postcard to his associate in a venture in which all the advantages had been the partner's, to thank him for his hospitality in letting them use his house on the island of Khyros for the summer. When he handed the card to Ilona so that she would sign it too, d<br />
she looked him in the eye for an instant and went back to the bathroom, where she had been combing her hair. She didn't say a word, but Abdul tore up the postcard and threw the pieces into the toilet. Te matter was not mentioned until several months later, when I met them in Marseilles. We were at the docks, eating lobster prepared with olive and garlic and accompanied by a modest Muscadet that was still reassuringly sprightly and direct. Abdul related the incident in a cheerful, mocking tone. Ilona laughed too, but when Bashur finished she sat looking at us like an angry Minerva, and her only comment was "This Lebanese was in very grave danger with his courtesy mal place. He was risking his head."<br />
"I knew that right away," said Brasur, this time a little less cheerfully taking a long drink of wine to hide the fleeting panic caused by Ilona's words.<br />
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I have posted THE CAPTAIN'S PRAYER previously.The Captain hands Maqroll "a paper in a plastic cover so smeared with the grease, mud, and grime that had accumulated with the passage of time and the touch of countless hands, that it was almost impossible to read the text, written on both sides of the paper in a haughty, angular, and defiantly clear feminine hand. I'll transcribe the captain's prayer as I wait for us the reach the rapids"</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>By<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Alvaro Mutis</div>
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<i> High calling of my protectors, those who have gone</i></div>
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<i> come now in this moment of danger, extend your sword,</i></div>
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<i>with firmness uphold the law of your purpose,</i></div>
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<i> revoke the disorder of birds and creatures of evil omen,</i></div>
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<i> are a blemish that deflects our compass, makes our cal-</i></div>
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<i> I invoke your presence at this hour and deplore with all</i></div>
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<i>my heart the manacles of my equivocations:</i></div>
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<i> my pact with man-eating leopards in the mangers,</i></div>
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<i> my weakness and tolerance for serpents that shed their</i></div>
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<i>skin at the mere shout of lost hunters,</i></div>
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<i> my communion with bodies that have passed from hand</i></div>
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<i>to hand like a staff to ford a stream, and on whose skin the</i></div>
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<i>saliva of the humble is crystallized,</i></div>
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<i> my ability to contrive the lie of power and cleverness</i></div>
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<i>that moves my brothers away from upright steadiness in</i></div>
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<i>their purposes,</i></div>
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<i> my carelessness in proclaiming your power in customs</i></div>
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<i>offices and guardrooms, in pavilions of sorrow and on pleas-</i></div>
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<i>ure boats, in guard towers along the border and in the corri-</i></div>
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<i>dors of the powerful.</i></div>
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<i> Wipe away in a single stroke all this misfortune and in-</i></div>
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<i>famy, save me,</i></div>
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<i> certain of my obedience to your bitter laws, your abu-</i></div>
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<i>sive haughtiness, your distant occupations, your desolate</i></div>
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<i>arguments.</i></div>
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<i> I give myself completely to the domination of your unob-</i></div>
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<i>jectionable mercy, and with all humility I prostrate myself</i></div>
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<i>at your feet</i></div>
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<i> to remind you that I am a traveler in mortal danger, that</i></div>
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<i>my ghost is worth nothing, that those who perish far from</i></div>
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<i>home are like trash swept into a corner of the market,</i></div>
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<i> that I am your servant and am helpless, and that these</i></div>
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<i>words contain the unalloyed metal of one who has paid the</i></div>
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<i>tribute</i></div>
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<i> owed to you now and forever throughout pale eternity</i></div>
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<i>Amen.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I THINK YOU DIDN’T CARE ENOUGH TO TELL ME THAT YOU’D GONE </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I boarded the barge</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The climate was already changing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Something was drifting in my eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That made me feel I was trying to outrun</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A storm, left me thinking that notes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Torn signs on buildings, on discarded newspapers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Had some kind of message for me. It was like</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Deny all shores, it said, stay aboard as long </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As possible. Disregard all gestures to explain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A PLACE FOR THE MOON</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This path leads along the shore</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beneath some wind-shaped pines</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Into a cove where the moon may</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Always be seen as it assembles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its lines and hoists itself</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To the night sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Years ago many people would gather</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here to watch these preparations,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Century Old Style Std';">
<span style="font-size: large;">But now this place is mostly forgotten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those who came here have mostly died</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or have gotten themselves, far, far away, no longer</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Century Old Style Std';">
<span style="font-size: large;">Thinking of this place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I came here with gifts for the moon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it will not receive me and prepares</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">His rigging, mixes his huge variety of lights</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And sits down for a few minutes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before it is time to lift above the tree line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I watch it practice becoming huge then</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Diminishing to the much smaller size</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It uses to reign as lord over the night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It flips though its phases, tucking itself</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In here and there, using the shadows</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To his greatest advantage to remain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As beautiful as possible. It is</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An amazing display and takes place</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In that regal silence the moon demands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After awhile, I am joined by a few</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Others who know of this place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They come for inspiration and to restart</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A sense of wonder lost to themselves</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In their commerce with the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For centuries this place has been</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such. I have seen the winds here,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Flocks of owls and creatures who</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Build the night. Last to arrive</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are the dreamers in their gauzy </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Garments, truly stardust and breathing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Smoothly and deeply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The moon begins its ascent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The night settles into itself perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">KING LEAR ON THE HEATH</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The swarms are moving in. They pass</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Through our breath and fog the glass of days</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Completely. If they have bones, they use</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Them to make music, a curious dry, music,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sound of grasshopper wings in a still field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We begin to write the opera they contain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I am more alive that you.”, wail the flutes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lugging their way through storms and broken</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reed to light upon the quick scarves of the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tongue and burst into colorful flame, capes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfurled, as if they were not paying attention </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To how the story might go. They eat heroes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And heroines alike, spitting out the small bits,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Extinct and irrelevant but always catching us,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Making us regret their actions, passing us</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With thick arms and buckets filled with fascinating</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Treasures from the deepest parts of the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally we are asked to walk among them,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Suspend belief, give ourselves over to their</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Crackling displays that take language out</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of the senses violently, pulling our hair</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To direct us in the direction they will have us</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Go. We become weary meeting other people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looking for the light in their eyes that allows</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Us to understand they have seen what we </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have seen, heard what they have heard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From on high we can watch the doors of perception</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Swing open and closed, millenniums of behavior,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Always similar to our own but finally crouching</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Behind one another, As flies to wanton boys, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have told the children that it was still raining.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I asked them to come to the window and see how this is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look at these cards I have been given. They are neither</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This one has an image of a coyote on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While we were speaking a bird with a wren-like sound</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Landed on my head and tapped my head lightly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It wasn’t like it never happened that that I saw you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I knew I could never reach you. I asked the angels for help.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We have for them and them for us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">How easy it is to unseat any color</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Into something that is no longer aware of itself</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or of us as we hurry through the labyrinths</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Time gives us for a chance to know</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We thank ourselves for the blue</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of the ocean and it is not us at all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is the conversations between memory</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Burns on the hands, inside the mouth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">SLOW TRAIN COMING</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">There’s a kind of pain inside</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Maybe I’ll take another ride,</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Slide down a mountainside,</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">I forget those things, now I feel enabled.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Must be the power of the words</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">'Cause nothing else here has occurred</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">This whole thing feels absurd</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">I just put all of my cards on the table.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Won’t be going home tonight</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">I’m not sure I can stand the sight</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Here, the furniture even fights</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">It gives new meaning to the word ‘fabled’.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Time to ride the rails away</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Forget all the words I say</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Just pick it up and play</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Hang out at the Tower of Babel.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Put the lawn chairs in a row</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Invite the pope, Curly, Larry, Moe</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Make some bread, make some dough</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">We will talk about J Lo and Betty Grable.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">This kind of foolishness has to end</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">We’ve got a store to tend</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Run outside and make some friends</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Get myself a new coat made of sable.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">There’s a slow train coming down</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Take everybody home in this old town</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #223344; line-height: 18px;">Even the jokers and the clowns</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stumbling close by my footsteps.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Within it. There was one bird, he had a damaged</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wing and flew in circles around us making a wonderful</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I found my hands upon your shoulders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The color of heartbreak or someone you love</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Walking away and you knowing you will not </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Be seeing them again. I suppose there is</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A music there but it is stolen by cellos and keyboards.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Given to a corner where we notice the quality</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of the light, the people crossing the room,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The way their conversation had its own agenda</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And there we were, together once again, waiting</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As we are now. I lean close. Listening to your breathing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A PLACE FOR THE MOON</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This path leads along the shore</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Line for about a mile then ducks</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beneath some wind-shaped pines</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Into a cove where the moon may</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Always be seen as it assembles</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Its lines and hoists itself</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To the night sky.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Years ago many people would gather</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here to watch these preparations,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But now this place is mostly forgotten.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Those who came here have mostly died</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or have gotten themselves, far, far away, no longer</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thinking of this place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I came here with gifts for the moon,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But it will not receive me and prepares</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">His rigging, mixes his huge variety of lights</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And sits down for a few minutes</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before it is time to lift above the tree line.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I watch it practice becoming huge then</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Diminishing to the much smaller size</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It uses to reign as lord over the night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It flips though its phases, tucking itself</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In here and there, using the shadows</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To his greatest advantage to remain</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As beautiful as possible. It is</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">An amazing display and takes place</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In that regal silence the moon demands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">After awhile, I am joined by a few</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Others who know of this place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">They come for inspiration and to restart</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A sense of wonder lost to themselves</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In their commerce with the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">For centuries this place has been</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Such. I have seen the winds here,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Flocks of owls and creatures who</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Build the night. Last to arrive</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Are the dreamers in their gauzy </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Garments, truly stardust and breathing,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Smoothly and deeply.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The moon begins its ascent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The night settles into itself perfectly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> A MANUSCRIPT</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Near the edge of a high cliff called Relan, a particular species of flower occurred, here and here only. Blue and yellow petals, tomatose leaves, a thick, fleshy stem and exhibited a variety of variations and sports that often changed the habit of the plane so significantly that it was, oftentimes unrecognizable to all but the serious botanist and a few magicians who climbed here at various times of the year to gather specific parts of the plant in order to create teas, poultices and mixtures of dried flower parts for secret purposes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It was held that a tea made from the unusually silvery, slightly florescent petals of this plant could be counted on the generate pre-cognitive dreams in certain subjects. Those who sought this kind of information first observed a regimen of fasting, meditation and other practices in order to increase receptivity to the infusion. This tea is purported to be extremely astringent and yet quite flavorful. It does not keep well and is traditionally consumed within a fortnight of the gathering of these plant parts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The dreaming generated by imbibing this infusion are often complex in structure but always, despite baroque ornamentation, unveil an action or occurrence that otherwise would have remained hidden from the dreamer for a longer period of time. One would waken knowing something would occur in one’s waking state. The dreaming however was not time or circumstantially specific. One could be assured however that when this event took place it would be recalled as the subject of the dreaming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This kind of activity was not often made available to those pilgrims who sought these magicians council. The quest prompting such an exploration as this needed first to be determined to be pure inquiry, that is to say, that one could not ‘wish’ to know something for the purpose of causing harm to anyone else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>For example, one could not dream if someone would die on a journey, but one could dream the kinds of lessons one would learn on that journey. This kind of dreaming was valuable in determining the difficulty of a situation. A selfless inquiry would be most readily responded to by the tea although many questions had been posed by great kings and warriors concerning the outcome of future battles. The information gained usually informed them of the kind of weather on that day or a bit of news concerning a loved one that might be received on the same day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The poultices made from the leaves and fibers of this singular plant were also of an extraordinary nature. At the hands of a master magician they could restore a tree from a cut stump, the memory of an old man, healthy skin to a damaged skin, eyesight to a dead eyeball and courage to a faint heart. Placed up the ears it could create a blessed an unique music to be heard that, in its unraveling healed and brought peace to a troubled mind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This space between here and the clouds</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Seems careless but for fleeting beauty</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And a wharf for docking weary eyes</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To something not covered with the dust.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A dreamt majesty that doesn’t</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stare but remains an argument</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">That there is a sweet, staring</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distance between all things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We find the wide heaven,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This sparkling haven where we no</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Longer need make choices</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But use the energy we have gathered</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To quell time’s complaints about</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Everything that is not dead,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Forgetting even our own names,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Living here without bodies to see</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘The low owl plummet, rising of the morning.’ </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Finally able to put my tongue in</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">the water, the bright coolness</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It brings, reassured that there </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Are photographs of the whole thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">No matter. No one will see it. It will</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Remain hidden, spoken about only</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">By a few who heard that years ago</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Someone had stood up on the hill,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looked down for a moment and began</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The make the descent to the edge</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of the river. It was always flowing</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Too fast to enter, like teeth gnashing</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">At its bed and swirls of eddies that</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Could eat a man in less time than </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It took to imagine what drowning </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Was actually like. Most who tried</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To come to the water simply disappeared</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Into myth or legend, a pitiful reminder</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">All the old tales are. Not a mention</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of the danger or the weather except </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As embellishments to make the story</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Seem more remarkable. That the journey</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Happened was the really big thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tasting the water with the tongue, looking</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the photographs, the wild light in his eyes,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The depth of his stare, we retired to another</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Room, heated up some soup, fiddled with the type</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">For awhile, found some paper, painted some covers</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And put the whole thing to bed all the while listening</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To that sound time makes as it hurries past an open door.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">LAMENTATIONS </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A wandering of the spirit</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Clothed like an idiot</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the worst weather, issuing</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sounds that take the heart</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Away slowly so one can watch</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It leaving through the filtered</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Light of the jungle,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Past a small clearing then</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Disappearing for a lifetime.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">One becomes attached to </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Living this way only because</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is little else one can call</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Life but the high cries</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">From the canopy of night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Rustling of wings, some beast</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Coughing into an even darker</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Front where everything must</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Be carried away by strangers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We call loudly for our family,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our brothers and sisters and the dark</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Answers with measured howls and shrieking</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">They move the soul away from the body,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Expand everything we know toward</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A false dawn or a golden moment late</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the day, evening in the mouth</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like rust, teeth clenched trying</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To wake the moon to see</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">If it makes any sense at all;</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The things we never get used to doing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">When we are not there is the only</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Time it will arouse attention.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Three spinning balls larger than </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Questions work themselves into</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A frenzy of needing someone to see</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Them, but it is never us. No matter</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">How hard our prayers become there</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is no way we can see them, even looking </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">At mirrors does not serve us well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve been going through this dilemma</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">For years now, mostly after dark when</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Without reason I become obsessed</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">With this idea as if it were a void</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In my life. I try to observe the scene</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To no avail. I am fervent even when </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It ceases to matter. It seems as if </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I could win this one without a problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve finally made the decision in advance;</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To know how beautiful they are without having</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To see them spinning there, throwing off</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">colors and sparks, dream-like mists,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A music never before heard. It is </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Truly beautiful. I will lead my life knowing this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This poem was published in my book A LIMITED MEANS OF EXPRESSION published in 2011 by Rattlesnake Press, Pollack Pines, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">ANIOLY KARTY DO GRY</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Angels Playing Cards)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is too much light</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the room for anything irreconcilable</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To happen. It will be recorded</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Inside the caves, on the battlefields,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Across the purple moors and darker prairies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The cards are flipped down upon</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The table, voiceless like generations</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Forced to speak to each other</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Through the dark</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Doors of time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">For each card is unforgiven, unforeseen</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">With traces in its skin of the stillness</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before birth, The Ascent of Mount Carmel,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Olympian crucifix with its living</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Christus smelling like wars and collapse</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Through fire of great empires.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is no betting at all. All blows away,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just the open-mouthed angels constantly</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Surprised at how the cards fall</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As if by chance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the wind, a kind of clear</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blue wanting that knows how</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To use a can opener on the</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Air, so that it can tear silver</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lines into the heart. Oh, there</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Will be no blood, for blood is</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A veil and time, a great bird</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">High over the roofs of this town.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We thread our way past the crowds</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To discover a land drenched with moon,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Its collection of owls silently winging</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Out, over the edge of the lake. There</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">is an idiot’s song, a lament caught</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the floor of the night. How big</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It all seems, the words, the voices</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">From the sink of the city. It is</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As if we were not to find a way</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here, as if God himself were out</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">For the day inventing Christmas</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">All over again, so that it might have</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A different sound, perhaps that of many</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Children, rather than the small golden </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Voice two thousand years old.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fed and slightly tired, the block</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is strung with colored lights and</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Singing can be heard from windows,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Laughter and a crisp of first frost</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the air. It must have been</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like this over and over again,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So far we have come knowing such</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of birdsong, furred flutes of a pile</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of sleepy kittens, are nothing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Curved flight of an eagle, smooth as flesh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pretty carts, yellow with children’s</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Laughter, the preening carnivals of</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sleep, laced up with dreams, all pretty they are,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Full of the heart singing the names of God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh the bears and the rivers and the</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blustery hills senseless with the stars,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">They are so bright. Turtles, snowflakes</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Your thighs, the little noises that escape</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Us when we are suddenly standing on high</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Places, the phosphorus of the moment</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Burst into flame, all this nothing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Long ago, I walked here alarmed</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">That one day, as sure as shooting,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">That angel would be walking out to</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meet the boatman, raise his hand to greet</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Him and, beautiful rose of life, such a</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The whole orchard, we are here together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In a rage to know all things,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or as many things as it is possible</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To know when one is eleven years old.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The divine walking amongst</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our friends, choosing this one</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And that one, taking them away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unlacing their memories,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Giving their recognition of others</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To the winds, to the birds,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Both flying away in a flurry of noise.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">At any time; just sitting there,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Getting out of bed, walking from one</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Room to another.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">All that was familiar</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Suddenly not at all</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Understandable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Time without borders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anything could happen</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">At any instant,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or perhaps not happen at all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Waking from a summer nap.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The light, enchanting, over everything,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Temperature and sound engaged</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In a magnificence of waking.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The world, yes!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rulers of the mind,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">All chemicals and fires</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the neurons and synapses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beyond explanation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The half-remarkable question:</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"What is it that we are part of,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And what is it that we are?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The delight of the dance,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The endless business of water.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">That which is love,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beneath the stars,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Inside all of sleeping,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Surrounded by its</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Insistence on forever</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Waking once again in the same</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Room. Still here upon the Earth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Doing things that become familiar,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To us. No longer surprised</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">By every act, by each event.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Moving through the day,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Learning laughter and</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Helping one another to</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Understand how something</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Works. Finding the old</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Language, the color, the</span></span></div>
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