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Wild and wind-swept, our sail
Laving us, washing over us, spraying us
Carrying us to places unsuspected
Where we’d rather not go
But become to us beneficence

:- Doug.

We are sometimes the waft upon the drifting winds.

:- Doug.

Have you ever seen a duck in a tree?
Today this is what I saw
& he flew from limb to limb!

:- Doug.

Soul is not a belly
Maybe a belly laugh

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2526

In the very earliest time
like tomorrow
persons and animals lived together
as kin because they could
by saying it
become one another
so how come we don’t love one another
over generations?

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Death accomplishes me
Makes me undying.

:- Doug.

Speed is excuse for lazy.

:- Doug.

Disdain is worse than hatred
Or at least as harmful
To us
My disdain convicts me
I kill others so
Ought we not stop?

:- Doug.

This March we’re experiencing Trumpian weather—up, down, around, and sideways.

:- Doug.

Spirit of many a conversation
Spirit of hours often baffled

:- Doug.

Dark absorbs the bright and gives it back in morsels and sips we two can safely take in.

:- Doug.

The task eternal we take up
We! All generations! Together!

:- Doug.

Avoid seriosity!

:- Doug.

It has taken me four years of devoted effort, so far, to discover The Last Hot Chocolate.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2525

Making memories?
Not as wonderful as
Making moments

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Are you any less immortal?

:- Doug.

To serve: to disappear.

:- Doug.

What do you hear, Doug Germann and friend?
Whom do you salute? Whom do you hail, Doug Germann and friend?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2524

The point is not the length
of conversation
nor the mere dropping
of veils
More
other
taking in
each of other
—finding us—
of same substance
and holy

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2523

My brain is not me
It only tells me so

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2522

“God,” the pray-er began
“We just. . .”
As he went on I counted,
Collecting his “justs:”
Surely a just prayer
But let not your teeth
Get stuck
In justice
Or pretending to little requests
There is a hidden more
Back behind all those “justs:”
He did not trust his god,
Had to put in his order
From some imagined menu
With only some delights
For his unlearned palate
Imagining a limited god.

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I do not bring you to your highest or best, nor you me
But we may hope for higher or better or more human and person-al.

:- Doug.

Think in the direction of long, extend your self thro’ thinking, think stretchy.

:- Doug.