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Conversation is a place
To get lost
Deliciously

:- Doug.

See if you can enter more conversations saying to yourself, “I wonder. . . .”

:- Doug.

I travel
To converse
I become guest
We become
Us

:- Doug.

Conversation is an art-form. Is it yours?

:- Doug.

I am an odd Doug.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2381

Conversation is increase in existence.

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These pages are not an example of how artwork looks, that is, ends up. But it is an example of the approach to the beast.

:- Doug.

When we’re family we still come at things from starkly different directions. He walked out of therapy carrying his crutches in his right hand. “Hi” he said to me, I said “Hello,” and noticing his surgical boot almost said “That makes you dangerous,” but he was past me quickly. Five steps back his daughter (I guessed) hustled to catch up. “You’re trouble,” she said. I hazarded she approached the little event from safety, he from feeling free. I could be wrong about what they each saw; but am I wrong about starting points?

:- Doug.

No rhyme
No meter
All matter

:- Doug.

Conversation is imagination.

:- Doug.

Curiosity offers respect
All are created
Equal in dignity
Which of your stories
Withhold?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2380

I have a vocabulary that I practice day by day in my poetry. That comes easily. In making I leave far behind the daily. It does not exist for hours at a time. It is not needing in my making. When I return I am lost. The language there is foreign, the words long unused, and so fresh. Is that excuse? Or is there some fact?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2379

When we seek to converse artfully, we are measuring the talking by what we put into it, words and spirit, not by what we get from it.

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I’ve been saying conversation requires and is about hard work. Yes, it is hard work, but that is not what it is about. It’s about imagination. An imagination calling forth curiosity. An imagination calling forth playfulness.

:- Doug.

Are there really ever outcomes?

:- Doug.

Holy curiosity
Meets
Holy grievance
Waits
For Thou

:- Doug.

Conversation is a commitment, not an add-on: a commitment to humanity, to sisterhood, to Being.

:- Doug.

Together = Conversation

:- Doug.

How do two get playful, together?

:- Doug.

What is
That excess of life
You carry?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2378

What if you dream’d
And what if in your dream
You conversed with your friend
And what if you awoke
With your phone in your hand?

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An adventure
Each conversing can be
Tripping over
A friend to inspire
A home

:- Doug.

Endless the depths
of our night sky
Scientia imagines
our universe rounded
just not measurable
So we find ourselves
each planet each person
at the center of the ball
moving apart
Or maybe we are on
the ball’s surface in
a viscous fluid
gathering ‘round
a hearth
these depths
out & over & held
are not, perhaps,
deep & out & over & held
but

:- Doug.