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What does your bookshelf whisper, shout about you?

:- Doug.

Read something that perplexes you.

:- Doug.

Lawyer, plant a tree.

:- Doug.

Let’s unpack for the trip.

:- Doug.

Three steps: Report (what happened); Reflect (what could have changed); Reflex (examine thyself).

:- Doug.

She stopped eating
Was she obstinate
Or living dying’s natural process?

:- Doug.

Whether or not I am present mentally, I want my dying sacred.

:- Doug.

In high mountain
Forming
Gathering
Torrenting
Laking
Spilling
Rivering
Gushing
Covering
Waving
Flowing
Every
Evaporating
Misting
Raining
Nurturing
Constituting

:- Doug.

My band of ancestors
a forest to be gathered among

:- Doug.

I have for a time and half a time
thought we are living in story
each episode has
beginning end and in between
a muddle
we spend most of our lives in
the muddle

:- Doug.

You are living in an unknowing
Poem and you must we must
keep writing keep going

:- Doug.

What you can see is more
than lifting the fog
you know more than you know

:- Doug.

Ponderful things come in through the fingers
give you freedom to write to pry open
some forgotten box

:- Doug.

What do I mean? Nay, what do you?
That will be for you to let work on you
As you wend your way to home and family and pillow

:- Doug.

It is possible to write something that
was not evident before to
reach an edge of my own meaning

:- Doug.

Not mere concreteness, but detail, oh, detail!

:- Doug.

Human what ingredient
can you add to this fry pan?
Imagine

:- Doug.

Will I do these things next time?
Hard to say
But if I did not so
Exercise my imagination
I could not

:- Doug.

She gave up on life
Giving up on life and its possibilities
Is a failure of imagination

:- Doug.

What stories have been significant for me? Rewrite this story in that house.

:- Doug.

Write then rewrite with physical concretizing metaphors.

:- Doug.

Exploring what uniform I wore and
What new hat I can try on next time
That is the adventure in this story

:- Doug.

Of course I’m mixing my metaphors—what better ways to savory flavors?

:- Doug.