Songs of the ensemble
We will make poems, songs, will think but in reference to the ensemble.
:- Doug.
Flame up from us
We will let flame from us the burning fires that were
threatening to consume us
:- Doug.
Fulfilling hot chocolate mugs
This is fulfilling our conversation
This is the fulfilling of our hot chocolate mugs
This is the last hot chocolate I can converse thro’
You, you generations
You will fulfill more
:- Doug.
Shapes of your words!
But the shapes of your words, O Walt, they lead me on, and my words you, and we lead and point and frolic!
:- Doug.
Bread mystery
Cooking is a dark art for me. Then Saturday I had some bread turn out very well. I could turn on the oven light, and still never know what was transpiring. It’s not about seeing. Tran-spire! Think of the meaning of that. To breathe through, one might even say thro’. To pass vitality across. Pass the peas! ¡Pasa el pan por favor!
Being baked into bread
When I say dark, I mean mystical, sitting in the fire, being consumed by the holy other of my friend, letting his music work through me, being baked into the bread others will chew and take into their beings.
:- Doug.
Center of action
A verb is the center of the action between two nouns, one acting upon the other. All is relationship, and in that, conversation.
:- Doug.
converse across generations
Have the conversation across generations—leads to an adoption of conversation.
:- Doug.
joy and fun made small
By dark I mean joy and fun valuable things we have come to denigrate and make small.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2520–Too small to float
Footprints in the Windsm # 2520
Too small to float much
we, particles of snow,
how inconsequential
to winds moving us to now
where-we’re-supposed-to-be
in days we lock arms, melt
what is our lasting work?
Please pass it on.
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constellations need opposition
By dark I mean constellations which need the opposition to make their qualities known and shine.
:- Doug.
furthest reaches before
By dark I mean lasting—into the furthest reaches of the generations before and the generations after.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2519–Share before
Footprints in the Windsm # 2519
Share it
before it is perfect
Please pass it on.
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This reading is cornucopia
Read a book when you get it. Read it again, you get something new. Read a person again with curiosity (and some commonality) and you give to each other riches overflowing.
:- Doug.
Equally inviting
Black contains, absorbs all colors. White reflects, unleashes all colors. Equally brilliant, equally inviting.
:- Doug.
