“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
The Gathered World: The 44 poems in these 4 Posts are the product of 16 months of near constant attention and revision. I hope you find one or two among them that please you. I am unable to add the text of the poems in the off-off chance that some of them might be published. Poems 1 to 11 You Can Listen Here: The Discovery of Life You Can Listen Here: Beginning You Can Listen Here: Water Carries Everything Away You Can Listen Here: The Recognition […]
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You Can Listen Here: That greasy spatter of apprehension draining from Washington, sometimes becoming dread, seems to leach into every normal errand and action, but birds subdue its effect … and dogs and laughter and children. All of this adds up to less time pondering the damage done by the political ghouls who too often command my attention. Our dogs begin pacing each morning at 5:30 or 5:45, hungry, up with the light, and in […]
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You Can Listen Here: The poison goes much deeper now, his infection, this contagion of unreason and cultish worship. What other words would do justice to the present faith in Trump, this singular performer, this grotesque antithetical to truth and decency and civility and kindness and competence and honesty? This ‘faith’ is not stupidity. Those who believe separate the rest of their problem-solving, children-loving, job-holding competencies from their faith in Trump. It would be […]
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You Can Listen Here: The sandstone wall under the maples becomes a line along the garden and curves like a snake in motion. It is capped by a beaked piece of granite I found in the field next door and carried home in some delight. How did granite wind up here? I keep a chair under the tree near water and the feeders that descend from branches. The birds are used to me. I […]
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