If we still die
If we still die in your age, if it be not delayed, withheld, what does it give?
:- Doug.
too much it wiggles
We can say about spirit
much and little and never all at once
too much it wiggles
:- Doug.
Ethereal is solid
Ethereal, undefined, uncontained, this thing I call spirit is the solid lasting base of life. This is the river that runs through life.
:- Doug.
Shaping us shaped by us
Shaping us shaped by us
Spirit visits as if
—Our thinking: from stored repeated thoughts
To working at thinking
To reverie
To living notions on the wing out of reach
—Weights: from heaviest conscience
To bouncing step
—Colors: from sharpness of red
To fingers outstretched in dark diaphanous swirling violet
—Winds: from fiercest storms
To light whisper of a lover on my cheek
Spirit we have never known you yet!
:- Doug.
no distinct message, other than
There is no distinct message other than perhaps to be present to life, to demonstrate that to the grandchildren, to challenge them to be present and all of us to bend the arc.
:- Doug.
out of immediacy
The 300 years gets us out of immediacy, stretches our thinking, makes it useful, and meaningful.
:- Doug.
Being present 300 years
Perhaps the very act of being present to our own lives is what will be most needful and most useful to those alive in 300 years.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2010–This is the heroic day
Footprints in the Windsm # 2010
This is the heroic day
the day in which
we do not know
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Not so mysterious
Maybe not so mysterious
matter—brain
producing immaterial—thought
for feet produce action—running
is thinking less particle more wave?
:- Doug.
The tracks we make
The tracks we make upon our times
are faint, faint
Did our parents take us to Washington
in 1962 or 1963 or 1964?
There are no longer any records
and who can open those computer files
from a decade ago?
:- Doug.
Only after do we become conscious
Our conversation invents—only after do we become conscious from it, make intention.
:- Doug.
Might those flaws be energy?
Flawed we say we humans are
Might those flaws be energy
Wildness chaos our world needs
To grow to invent to love
even as it affronts order & control?
:- Doug.
