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Maybe we fear the big questions more that the conversations. Big questions: what are they? Questions perhaps that touch the timbers on which we stand, way up there in the sky where we have arrogated to place ourselves.

:- Doug.

True, raw conversation cannot be done alone. Each must work with each. Hear this: Each must work with both.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2289

Let go the right word so a more fanciful one can float up.

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Some other place
a conversation might yet be
a spell to be enjoyed

Here we may be seen to sleep. And when we dream, another speaks. In dreams, we are each every character. We hear. Our dreams change. (It does not have to be the playwright’s script, nor the spectator’s revision. It does not have to be the spell as first cast, for even spells are malleable, subject to happenings.)

:- Doug.

The conversation is, in itself, a spell.

:- Doug.

Is there a role for imagination and memory in conversation, do they exercise a power?

:- Doug.

Don’t push the wave.

:- Doug.

I was walking to the edge
of my lands: my yard

:- Doug.

In Latinate languages, the verb form encapsulates the actor. So veni vedi veci is “I came….” Where does your conversation encapsulate you both?

:- Doug.

Not a place we go
Not a thing we are
Not a state we attain
Not a noun
Not a verb
Not an adjective
Weaving, woven, raveled

:- Doug.

Conversation eludes us
Plays and hides
Na na na na, na na
Can’t catch me
Revels in finally being found

:- Doug.

Conversation is a sacred obligation
We owe one to another

:- Doug.

Be not didactic
be you exploractic!

:- Doug.

What beauty in that so-blue sky
from richness on it goes to richness
I lose my way devouring

:- Doug.

In conversation we try to work out what we think and maybe even what we mean.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2288

When sitting this close
and breathing-in one another
we risk mixing up our atoms

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Do I seek after visionary?

:- Doug.

Let us decide in what world we want to live. We do this in conversation, in meeting. We will not get it, not all of it, but what we get will wonder us.

:- Doug.

Your other does not come as an invader, a proto-conqueror; neither do you.

:- Doug.

Take care of your conversations
So they make of you caring

:- Doug.

Credo
I give my heart to
searching for aliases
for God
for conversation
for me

:- Doug.

In conversation
you become
story

:- Doug.

Complex is
a flag’s converse
with wind

:- Doug.