welcoming black

No longer fully overcast
clouds are pulling away from one another
and between—O between!—
an opening here, an opening there
and in them a deepening
deepening blue, and I—my spirit—
flies again and again into that deep
out from my torso
into the blue, as it becomes indigo
then violet
then welcoming black

:- Doug.

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messes holding

Like much else in life, our messes and imperfections might just hold our greatest.

:- Doug.

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Wriggle yourself out

Pure conversation is not about you. You’ve got to wriggle yourself out of your me, I, ego. It’s not about what you say, nor hear, nor do. It washes through you, you wash through the conversation. You and the conversation and your Thou all semi- or more permeable.

:- Doug.

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Can koan?

Can either of us koan?

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 2218–I fear the page

Footprints in the Windsm # 2218

I fear I fear the page so many friends who play with me and I taking one or two by hand at a time may leave my other dear playmates behind, leaving us sad and lonely. I’ll come back for you and we’ll play a new and fuller song!


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whisper through strings

Here
in this conversation
offer your self
so divine oneness might
whisper through your strings

:- Doug.

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What says this within?

What says this conversation
within the conversation
within the conversation?

:- Doug.

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More than one lifetime?

Can we live more than one lifetime? In a conversation? We can.

:- Doug.

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Not the heft?

What if, in conversing, our messages were not the conversation’s heft?

:- Doug.

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circle of flickering

A musician carries the music spirit in body and pulse. This conversation carries its music spirit in your bodies, in the conversation’s pulse, and in its circle of flickering shadow and light.

:- Doug.

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More than communication

Conversation is more than communication.

:- Doug.

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Go with your new all

Like my grandson’s basketball game: it won’t matter which team won or lost, but whether he gives it his all to the extent circumstances allow. So to each conversation. Sometimes, rarely, you both open, receive, and give your all. Other times, one or both of you can’t or won’t. Go on to the next one, with your new all, freshly.

:- Doug.

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Show possible

I must show it is possible, and invite my readers, to invent new ways for each of them to converse.

:- Doug.

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Too difficult to try

William Stafford held that violence is a failure of imagination. Depression too is a failure of imagination—one is stuck and cannot imagine a way out, or only one way, a way that does not work or is too difficult to try.

:- Doug.

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It carries this spirit

Maybe not everything is in conversation. Even so, it carries the spirit of conversation. And the encompassing spirit of meeting.

:- Doug.

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Point and tease

Point to writers like Schafer and Alexander and use their method to tease out of readers new conversations.

:- Doug.

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Microcosm of you

Your conversation is a microcosm. And a macrocosm. Of you.

:- Doug.

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Tracking to its den

This is not a work of unfolding to the buyers what any of us knows but of circling about the territory, tracking to its den. It is also not about how we become better at conversing. Perhaps how we become better persons through conversing. No. That also is too small. Conversing we become persons. Conversing we. Period. Same thing. Bigger conversing bigger persons. Smaller, nastier conversing, smaller nastier persons. As you converse. . . .

:- Doug.

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Heron waits

There is this thing alive in you in me
It is The Quality Without a Name
Heron stands in waters waits for bass

:- Doug.

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with an upbeat

Poet is spirit
with an upbeat

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 2217–Racism in cloak

Footprints in the Windsm # 2217

Anti-woke is racism in cloak.


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When there is no juice

Just when I’m so prosaic
When there is no juice
It’s time to let my poet out

:- Doug.

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say nothing for a spell

Silence
Lets the other in
Secures our relationship
Gathers clarity
Opens stuffy places
—stay with me
—say nothing for a spell

:- Doug.

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