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Go for the whole, the heart, their sacred essence. Hear, see, engage each one’s higher capacities. Not as doing to, as meeting, unsure with unsure.

:- Doug.

Answering, closing: our deadening desire to control
Questioning, opening: curiosity’s dissonance

:- Doug.

Throws questions in my
Face, opens doors to strangers,
Casts my life to ground

:- Doug.

The miracle I bring—conversation
You bring some too

:- Doug.

Love one another?
No, we must go deeper—
Hear one another
See one another
One—we are
Another—like you—
Parcel with this one

:- Doug.

Listen for fellow possibilities.

:- Doug.

If we want conversation to produce
We must start with
Hearing

:- Doug.

Understanding: maybe the word is more: accepting, respecting, disinterested, commonality: humanity. Gathering, parcel, hearing.

:- Doug.

Conversation produces
What it produces is
Understanding opening out
Intimacy in the very heart
Of contrariety
“I see the beauty of your beloved homeland
But I would not live there”

:- Doug.

Withhold information
Withhold the key
Feed our curiosity
To uncover
This mystery

:- Doug.

Develop the dark side
Embrace character’s shadows
These nuances add richness
To the reveal

:- Doug.

Keep breathing
Keep breathing together
Conspiracy
—Can you see?—
Opens to us our We

Open your nostrils
Open your soul
Keep breathing together

:- Doug.

We are all we’ve got!
And just whom we need!

:- Doug.

Fire and risk
friends to kiss your spouse and children
progression’s everyday necessity

:- Doug.

What’s courage got to do with boldness
—Except the first step?

:- Doug.

No no no!
Most important is one tiny living
piece of the universe
held up, examined, and heard
this hour
Depth travels surer
into territories you would not miss

:- Doug.

We ask “What’s wrong?”
As if sadness were wrong

:- Doug.

I wish to move beyond
Common understandings
Of the symbols
Light and dark
To what glows and heals

:- Doug.

Victims have a power
Reserved to them
A power for healing
For new futures
A power to forgive

:- Doug.

A touch of healing
A touch of holiness
There is no thing holy
There are only
People who bring these

:- Doug.

Everyone can heal.

:- Doug.

Silence’s ways
Conversation’s ways

:- Doug.

Silence is another form of conversation.

:- Doug.