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What happens after a paradigm shift? What happens after the white water? What happens after the moments of sheer terror and before the stretches of utter boredom?

:- Doug.

Elders can get busy seeing the directions. For humanity. For clients. Have we ever seen a friend lost, and we saw how the foundering was playing out? Did we work out a way for us to say a word? What word could we?

:- Doug.

How do people respond to paradigm shifts? After the shifts? What are the stages of the shifts?

:- Doug.

Honor your inklings; spend time nurturing them; help them fully express themselves.

:- Doug.

Will we use the opportunity
of this 2020
to see more clearly?

:- Doug.

type with fingers on different keys
read with eyes for random “words”

:- Doug.

Mind
mine
mime the mystery

:- Doug.

creativity has a pragmatic purpose
imagination plays without rains
porpoises jump about making hoops and hollers

:- Doug.

You could be poet enough.

:- Doug.

Redistribute trust, reciprocity, imagination.

:- Doug.

Change the rules
What are the rules?
What rules your days?

:- Doug.

Service takes willingness to expend one’s last energy—and then gives you more.

:- Doug.

Slowly savoringly lostly
Dreamily slowly flowingly
Playfully skippingly slowly

:- Doug.

I can rhyme and I can rhythm
There they go and I go with ‘em

:- Doug.

Hear the harmonious
here in the world
of words as you swim

:- Doug.

Read a book at the edge
fall into a deep book

:- Doug.

Definitions seek to capture the essence of a word. To be succinct. Which is to say, be easy to remember, easy to test. For ancestors does this well trod path cover the territory, what these ancestors did, and more importantly what they still do, today, for us?

:- Doug.

I don’t know what you should write about: ask your writing fingers.

:- Doug.

We need a word….

:- Doug.

Get into your right mind!

:- Doug.

A poet might see: longer, funnier, sillier, serious-er, missed things, missing things, a way to go missing, inside another, inside the poet, inside out, backwards, unknowns, more, less, blindly, sounds, colors, fragrances, feelings, hot, cold, wet, emotions, uplift, downdraft, playful, old, young, unborn, ancestor-y, you, unseen poems, profound contraries, imaginary beings, imaginary non-beings, a rainbow stream in the air filled with rainbow trout, someone who has died, someone who has not yet died, a dream, a lake, a woods, a hole, a cloud, a circle, a life, the poet’s life, a client’s life, something beautiful, something struggling, something growing, something ugly, someone oppressed, someone hurting, someone helping, someone lost, someone the poet can help, someone the poet ought not help,

:- Doug.

How might our poetry be?
How might our poetry remake the poet?

:- Doug.

How might we be curious after we have died?

:- Doug.