End always different
A beginning, a muddle, and end. In a story, the end is always different. Unlike life.
:- Doug.
Archive for August, 2020
nudge aside “success”
What might be the opposite, or contrary, of failure of imagination, if we nudge aside the word “success?”
:- Doug.
Atmosphere meeting
A poet (think of Emily) is understood
less in words and particulars
more in atmosphere and meeting
:- Doug.
Better surprise?
How by reflection
Do we make better
A surprise?
Call in some bee, some butterfly
Some breeze!
:- Doug.
Poetry is choice
Poetry is a choice. Poetry is choice. Present, responsive, light, attentive, improvisational, creative, vulnerable, new.
:- Doug.
See what you can
The purpose of poetry is not to see larger
The purpose is not to uncover your psyche
The purpose is to see what you can see
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1974–Mask grief
Footprints in the Windsm # 1974
It occurred to me that what people are seeing in the masks is a symbol of their own grief. Indeed the country’s leaders went visibly through some stages: denial, bargaining, rushing to get through it, depression. And so there are folks in the stopping place of anger. We could meet them. With what would you be met?
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simple rebellion
In the refusal to mask up, there is something deeper than being uncomfortable, and deeper than simple rebellion.
:- Doug.
Against the mask
The fight against the mask
is the fight against facing
the shock of one’s unmasked self
:- Doug.
