Not to your highest or best
I do not bring you to your highest or best, nor you me
But we may hope for higher or better or more human and person-al.
:- Doug.
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Stretchy self
Think in the direction of long, extend your self thro’ thinking, think stretchy.
:- Doug.
Squint and squeeze
Hope is not of will
you do not get there by
taking a deep breath
closing your eyes
and squeezing
:- Doug.
We are for you
We are for you, O you of the generations, centuries, and millennia, not for your sake but also for the heroes and bards to come from your generations and ours, to come along beside as our companions—they, they refuse to awake at the touch of any but you, but us.
:- Doug.
Songs of the ensemble
We will make poems, songs, will think but in reference to the ensemble.
:- Doug.
Flame up from us
We will let flame from us the burning fires that were
threatening to consume us
:- Doug.
Fulfilling hot chocolate mugs
This is fulfilling our conversation
This is the fulfilling of our hot chocolate mugs
This is the last hot chocolate I can converse thro’
You, you generations
You will fulfill more
:- Doug.
Shapes of your words!
But the shapes of your words, O Walt, they lead me on, and my words you, and we lead and point and frolic!
:- Doug.
Bread mystery
Cooking is a dark art for me. Then Saturday I had some bread turn out very well. I could turn on the oven light, and still never know what was transpiring. It’s not about seeing. Tran-spire! Think of the meaning of that. To breathe through, one might even say thro’. To pass vitality across. Pass the peas! ¡Pasa el pan por favor!
Being baked into bread
When I say dark, I mean mystical, sitting in the fire, being consumed by the holy other of my friend, letting his music work through me, being baked into the bread others will chew and take into their beings.
:- Doug.
Center of action
A verb is the center of the action between two nouns, one acting upon the other. All is relationship, and in that, conversation.
:- Doug.
converse across generations
Have the conversation across generations—leads to an adoption of conversation.
:- Doug.
joy and fun made small
By dark I mean joy and fun valuable things we have come to denigrate and make small.
:- Doug.
constellations need opposition
By dark I mean constellations which need the opposition to make their qualities known and shine.
:- Doug.
furthest reaches before
By dark I mean lasting—into the furthest reaches of the generations before and the generations after.
:- Doug.
