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Two lovers gaze into each other’s core
Solitude is communion, communion solitude
Re-creation and death are lovers too

:- Doug.

Not yet whole: always whole-ing
Ever opening to us: the transcendent moment

:- Doug.

My wife needs to fix her hair
I didn’t notice
It was broken

:- Doug.

Politicians, left and right
irrelevant to most of life
—except for when they try to interfere

:- Doug.

Than you have figured out
The world is more curious

:- Doug.

Why do business writers think in only four quadrants, two dimensions? Why not three dimensions—or more, many rhythms, many foods, rainbows of colors—in a word, real life complexity?

:- Doug.

Like Scott toilet paper
Is the kind of lawyer I am—
Soft, strong, lasts long

:- Doug.

I make poetry because—
life loves me and I love life
something alive needs to be shared
the all there is matters deeply to me
—My feet and hands jangle

:- Doug.

If Mama ain’t happy
ain’t nobody happy
If Daddy’s in the nursing facility
ain’t nobody not in the nursing facility

:- Doug.

What I write is something
That is not nothing

:- Doug.