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Open the door
feel the breeze
just starting

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2019

Faith in vaccines
Soap your hands
Clarity of science:
Faith, soap, and clarity
That’s the way to live so virus-free
How do I know?
Doc Fauci tells me so!

Please pass it on.

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Poetry for grandchildren

:- Doug.

What are we doing now for them? What moans and non words of theirs hear?

:- Doug.

A dream becomes
shared
becomes bigger

:- Doug.

Thinking ahead
Hearting ahead
Acts of imagination

:- Doug.

Rebel at my age?

:- Doug.

Future Sense

:- Doug.

Spectator sports—particularly the violent ones like football—in their lack during covid may have contributed to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol because they were an outlet for people in the stands to exercise their tribal adventurousness on a regular basis.

:- Doug.

percussion concussion discussion
gentle please shh

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2018

You get lost in the forest
only because you don’t
want to be there

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Each human is formed
in music
wordlessly
from eons
hear this one

:- Doug.

I intervene!

:- Doug.

Elders are permitted
to intervene

:- Doug.

Voiceless in two or eleven
generations
could we
some of us
speak for real people
these
wanting to shout?

:- Doug.

God at my feet
in touch of fabric on toe
upward press of bed on my leg
subtle rhythmic punching inside my chest
little unnoticed ways alive

:- Doug.

After covid
back to normal’s not for me
we can be, better

:- Doug.

Playful the poet
turning ear downside up
better: startled
by an ear running off
on its own way-words

:- Doug.

Make yourself of use
to the grandchildren
artfully artfully
with joy
with fixation

:- Doug.

Imagine future ancestors

:- Doug.

Ancestors united
their idiom poetic

:- Doug.

Poetry
ancestor activism

:- Doug.

Imagine Futures

:- Doug.