Archive for July, 2020

You know more

What you can see is more
than lifting the fog
you know more than you know

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 31st, 2020 | No Comments »

In through the fingers

Ponderful things come in through the fingers
give you freedom to write to pry open
some forgotten box

:- Doug.

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Home and family and pillow

What do I mean? Nay, what do you?
That will be for you to let work on you
As you wend your way to home and family and pillow

:- Doug.

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Edge of meaning

It is possible to write something that
was not evident before to
reach an edge of my own meaning

:- Doug.

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Detail, oh, detail!

Not mere concreteness, but detail, oh, detail!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 30th, 2020 | No Comments »

Ingredient can you add?

Human what ingredient
can you add to this fry pan?
Imagine

:- Doug.

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Exercise could not

Will I do these things next time?
Hard to say
But if I did not so
Exercise my imagination
I could not

:- Doug.

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Gave up on life

She gave up on life
Giving up on life and its possibilities
Is a failure of imagination

:- Doug.

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Story in that house

What stories have been significant for me? Rewrite this story in that house.

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 1971–A water we cannot see across

Footprints in the Windsm # 1971

A water we cannot see across
Of this we stand in need
A brink we must visit and visit


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 29th, 2020 | No Comments »

Physical concretizing

Write then rewrite with physical concretizing metaphors.

:- Doug.

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Exploring hats

Exploring what uniform I wore and
What new hat I can try on next time
That is the adventure in this story

:- Doug.

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Mixing savory

Of course I’m mixing my metaphors—what better ways to savory flavors?

:- Doug.

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to work on her

Ask a question. Give her something to work on her.

:- Doug.

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Story calling forth

Through story, calling forth a higher humanity

:- Doug.

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Beat upon

Not to beat upon my back
But to fan some embers

:- Doug.

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Lost or absent?

What was lost or absent? What drove me to reinspect this event?

:- Doug.

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Did I assimilate?

What did I assume?
What did I, do I, seek to assimilate?
What is my role as lawyer, counselor, human?

:- Doug.

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The cross exam:

The cross exam is
Who are you?
Whom did you become?
Why? Why again?
Why not?

:- Doug.

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Prune myself

The work is to prune myself and fertilize the row I tend.

:- Doug.

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Suggest v shouting

The evidence is in; it says I believe:
That to suggest a call to make
Gets us further down the path
Than shouting “Justice for the Dying!”
That I do not know anyone’s final best
And that I feel disappointed in myself
To not have gotten it all

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 28th, 2020 | No Comments »

Maybe I have it

Maybe I have it
Wanna take the chance?
Mask up

:- Doug.

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Rap across my knuckles

A rap across my knuckles
Yet training wheels for the next times:
What little I did in the face of
What I did not do and
The way her dying was deadened

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 28th, 2020 | No Comments »
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