What mother doesn’t say

What mother doesn’t say Conform to a contour of sky, allow to cool, pronounce a name, given thus – a fool in paradise. A purposeful fit found by inches, by words. Some might say, doubtful grace. Holding sentiment kin to heart. So slight then the word frayed by ambling hooves as can render sight by [...]

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Two thirds

Two thirds   Two-thirds of who we are we don’t know. Don’t even know one whole first name, just a fraction bitten in. Red reveals ripe inside. And white. (Same as dark.) Darkly mattered they say, but that’s only like saying “Smith” to the universe. What it means really is, we don’t have a clue. [...]

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Attractiveness

Attractiveness What’s that feeling nibbling toes? Let’s call it gravity. A like attraction of like? An affinity that matters? There is no opposite visible. Nothing implies what isn’t. Yet does creation fill? Ask a bowl what it thinks of space. Does matter imagine breath? Does emptiness cling? A like attraction of like. An affinity that [...]

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Some hints toward happiness

Some hints toward happiness Open your arms to a dawn Cast your heart into a night See what grows See what follows Spread a few wild seeds Wild knows what to do, You observe Take a breath Now let go, everything dances on fingertips Eat some cake Pleasure is good for you Butter too, cook [...]

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What light becomes

What light becomes About some light poem group index What light becomes. In the luster of a flying star. Few who look, fewer see. An arching back, bent eye to glass, a mountain top, dark of night. Double dancing stars, far and far. Nothing impedes endless stellar breath. (Comforts me inside a thought.) Bright, bright, [...]

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Sleight of hand

Sometimes all there is to write upon is a napkin. Somehow these oft seem to become more fond. Fine nonsense.   Sleight of hand   It’s in the way silver wings swim beneath a shouldered sky and a mighty tall ship flies on white at oceans heights.   It’s all very reasonable I know, about [...]

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