Archive for April 8th, 2023

Your story is mine

We touch the universal in the particular. Why one to one conversation? This is why. It’s why we will always be captured by one person’s story, more than a generalized account of the human race. Statistics bore. Try telling them around a campfire. Your story is mine. I don’t know how, but it is.

:- Doug.

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Who can teach you?

Who in your life can teach you about conversation? For instance, with whom does conversation seldom happen? With whom does it fall apart? Why? Is it timing or venue? Why again? What exactly do you mean by “clash of personalities?”

:- Doug.

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had me thinking

What you said
had me thinking
You held me near—O!

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 2222–perhaps too much

Footprints in the Windsm # 2222

Bright white clouds in front of brilliant blue
morphing, re-shaping, suggesting
we assign meanings to shapes
and encounters with others
we do well, but perhaps too much—


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your shaded door

you opened your shaded door to me
to browse your pictures, hear your stories
to look with you at your backyard
to share your kind of beer
such is the good it is, with you to talk

:- Doug.

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