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It is a whelming
joy to greet someone in
foreground

:- Doug.

Conversation is not something I do
Rather whom we are

:- Doug.

What in 2025 America do we believe about grocery line conversations? What do you believe? I?

:- Doug.

I write compost poetry—
Poems that require
Turning

:- Doug.

Together, can we imagine
together, the possible structures
of this conversation,
its turns,
together, where it might
—not end up—
but point?

:- Doug.

Let us learn more about how to make conversation better—not better conversation. Experiment and find what works.

:- Doug.

Oceans of darkness
Are for many
A nursery

:- Doug.

Nearly all writing is from the standpoint of one person. What is the angle of two? It is possible to get there, yes?

:- Doug.

Asking the question about checkout line conversations suggests to people they can have such conversations. There is such a thing as weeping feet. What do we believe about checkout line conversation?

:- Doug.

The problem with starting all conversations is the very first word.

:- Doug.

Let’s be a gift to one another!

:- Doug.

You’ve received
something
to give away

:- Doug.

What’s the gift of it?

:- Doug.

A first generosity
give him or her
your name

:- Doug.

Gratitude is the essence
of the gift conversation

:- Doug.

Re
Member
It’s experiment
All the
Way down

:- Doug.

I can’t just sneak up on my reader. There must be something of worth. But I can still nest it in layers of satin.

:- Doug.

The work of the question is to jump between things and life across from things.

:- Doug.

I think—
I write—
of life beyond things

:- Doug.

What goes on
I think today
is life
and life tends toward mind
and spirit

:- Doug.

Snowflakes dance
What’s fall even mean?

:- Doug.

If we can meet the stranger, we can start to work toward others ever closer—acquaintance, friend, child, spouse.

:- Doug.

Tell what really happened in our conversation, like what happened when a fish hit and you had to be patient and steady. Step by step. This one went down, not sideways like a bluegill. What happens then, during a conversation? When do you set the hook, what is setting the hook? Instead of letting the fish tire, you would be kind to lead your friend to his or her fascination.

:- Doug.