tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597363688071573142024-03-14T13:28:45.391-05:00The Poetry of Gary M PowellGlobal Dad PoetGary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-83755053411044502662022-08-20T18:00:00.001-05:002022-08-20T18:00:15.774-05:00A few nights on the Uros Islands of Lake Titicaca, Peru<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmEOMUWkHQKzGCAo-abz6EVNZ85ppaTOlNL3ifn3XPBywSrOOXos48eebmqJWPakCiVN4o23hDkdwc-14mGUClKRWq1NjLYHKdVLY9BfkQEXjePbrUEbHLTfXFRPHpS8NWG-6BtozQwzc6g1wn7kG_dLOhjy4Wo5C_rO_iUhNyLENCZE4GdI6dWQLjXA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="280" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmEOMUWkHQKzGCAo-abz6EVNZ85ppaTOlNL3ifn3XPBywSrOOXos48eebmqJWPakCiVN4o23hDkdwc-14mGUClKRWq1NjLYHKdVLY9BfkQEXjePbrUEbHLTfXFRPHpS8NWG-6BtozQwzc6g1wn7kG_dLOhjy4Wo5C_rO_iUhNyLENCZE4GdI6dWQLjXA=w200-h129" width="200" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Uros<br /></b><o:p> <br /></o:p>You
are tired after ten hours on the luxury train<br />Taxis
and dark-sky boat to the floating islands<br />Tonight’s
bed has twenty-four kilos of blankets<br />You
cannot sleep for the flapping corrugated scraps<br />Clacking
and warping to the milky way<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Yet
it’s perfect--your body is saying--says a blue<br />Blip
somewhere on earth that is your body<br />We
are weaving sapphire love in the hovel of a room<br />Unabashed
as the sheet of stars across Lake Titicaca<br />Aloft,
upon wobbly mats of totora reeds<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>The
island waves. They must dream of cutting<br />Hoisting,
drying, laying, laying reeds to stay afloat<br />Could
it be that feet sink in with every step?<br /> It
could be his knock at 8:37am, handing me my phone<br />Which
has charged in his hut, or how he tells me<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>I
have received 4 calls in the middle of his night<br />It
could be Mateo, who is three, wearing my glasses<br />Whose
face is wide as a handmade quinoa cake<br />Or
his sister, Geraldin, in a dance between Mateo<br />And
adulthood. Or, it could be the grandfather on the roof<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p><i>Or
is he the father?—</i>dismantling
boards to move in a day<br /> <o:p></o:p>A
whole building, wrenching nails from the roofbeam,<br />Sounding
in the lake breezes like andean birds<br />Or
last night, climbing the teetering ladder for a<br />Dissertation,
above the lapping waves, on sky<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>An
entire island of reeds blown by the wind, creaking<br /> It
is to say, disorientation, and you have slept late<br /> into
the natural float of time, and coca tea, and reeds<br />Have
been gathered and the man at the apex must<br />Descend
to rap on your door with your phone</span></div>
Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-17467281868167590592022-07-04T16:21:00.002-05:002022-07-04T16:21:52.438-05:00Going with Elliott<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDI2Uk2FMC5gixDb8JQfzL5UYBLOFYgIydMNJqd1S1S77rbm8LnfVBsPJ8zAhGFQEJ8V0SfiPWulufNLnm66WXd7kYL6nNSGSr5RpH-YNgI_lc5ueIWxK0512Kqy4ynexBPvdGlAvMRRVXxDmSNix2rgiEygz66a-abUJHZfdKyKB8KG4S_wZ6CqYUYA/s4032/PXL_20220704_174843368.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDI2Uk2FMC5gixDb8JQfzL5UYBLOFYgIydMNJqd1S1S77rbm8LnfVBsPJ8zAhGFQEJ8V0SfiPWulufNLnm66WXd7kYL6nNSGSr5RpH-YNgI_lc5ueIWxK0512Kqy4ynexBPvdGlAvMRRVXxDmSNix2rgiEygz66a-abUJHZfdKyKB8KG4S_wZ6CqYUYA/w200-h150/PXL_20220704_174843368.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /></o:p></span><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;">Going With Elliott</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">In
the morning, nerves crook like they always<br />And
birds sing dirty again, uninterrupted by<br />Trucks
charging double sound below their canopies<br />I can’t
decide if the room is the height of heaven<br />Or,
with these low-slung thoughts, an abyss<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>I smell
more like my grandpa every day, while<br />On
the coffee table, a borrowed map I splayed out<br />With
a glossy sky--exotic and crisp--goes limp<br />After
a humid night, draping like a tablecloth<br />And I
wonder if I’ll be punished by the library<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>We
will go there, this new woman in my life<br />This
place with border crossings and altitude<br />With
the dead curled into pits in the arid hills<br />And
as interesting as the trip folds out to be<br />All I
can imagine are her breasts in the Andes<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Gusts
make leaves quake on the Fourth of July<br />Will
we get on for weeks in travel’s centrifuge<br /> As we
do in clumps of live and wayward hours?<br />Lastly,
will the branches of another continent<br />Chirp
as singlemindedly, beckoning the hoary day?</span></div>
Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-32016683902150679212022-04-03T21:51:00.003-05:002022-04-03T22:13:48.656-05:00Listening to Jazz on a Saturday Morning After the Invasion of Ukraine<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLYvIuNRok7UDvdkyfT9O382xlernnaQ_9cxTgQi0GMWkSzs4tTewpuyD_1k3scrSO0KJNTltURi8S6gyaCw5E3WQJEbSbcINyWHhiu4z0ZPw6qx8JPMHFGSiC9wbcV6klyndfkuMuvtr3dNWEab7Nn9WtELlitImLrPxd5SAN4CB_60gNkSBpWTSXlw" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1300" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLYvIuNRok7UDvdkyfT9O382xlernnaQ_9cxTgQi0GMWkSzs4tTewpuyD_1k3scrSO0KJNTltURi8S6gyaCw5E3WQJEbSbcINyWHhiu4z0ZPw6qx8JPMHFGSiC9wbcV6klyndfkuMuvtr3dNWEab7Nn9WtELlitImLrPxd5SAN4CB_60gNkSBpWTSXlw=w200-h152" width="200" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;">Listening
to Jazz on a Saturday Morning After the Invasion of Ukraine</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p> <br /></o:p><o:p> <br /></o:p>What
hope gives us, I note while making breakfast<br />Is
a palm facing up, a gesture beyond words<br />Not
a course of action, nor to defend against<br /> <i>Lomaya
dveri</i>--in
Russian--breaking down doors<br /> <o:p></o:p><o:p> <br /></o:p>Remember your childhood, how it was possible<br />To
gather fragments into place, order the chaos<br />To
cypher the codes to someday understand it all<br />And
the stars would not blow out in night?<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Blown into dust, broomed like a mandala by monks<br />In
a drone chant, this hope, scattered as it is<br />Through
woods unknown, to its borders where silhouetted<br />Trees
burst with sticks and leaves thrust into spring<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>That’s
all we’ve got: This peculiar hope, the stars and sticks<br />Listening
to jazz on a Saturday morning after the invasion of Ukraine<br />What
can one do but hope about a war, cracking eggs<br />Being
careful of shells and the counter measures?</span></div>
Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-28356660642036176732022-01-16T16:26:00.009-06:002022-04-12T14:34:17.807-05:00As if we are getting to know what has been for years a thing unacknowledged<p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKr5K0KGXstb1Oxv5lwX_Dk9j-_Rd9XNIdquH-L8HWyxFEiVY_fL8vXaXrq3Qxs69v-pSX-6koDZYxStrIKRzoWe2GXEU2SVIPXJodNBOB33FPENhyphenhyphenQ5Y-tcuAA-_b4qfK8tPUb5vw2RTE/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKr5K0KGXstb1Oxv5lwX_Dk9j-_Rd9XNIdquH-L8HWyxFEiVY_fL8vXaXrq3Qxs69v-pSX-6koDZYxStrIKRzoWe2GXEU2SVIPXJodNBOB33FPENhyphenhyphenQ5Y-tcuAA-_b4qfK8tPUb5vw2RTE/w150-h200/image.png" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p></div></b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><br /></b></div><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">The
Arne Norell Sirocco Safari Chair<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">My
sons bring up the chair<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">That
no one likes to sit in<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">In
the corner of the living room<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">One has looked it up:<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Cognac
leather, rosewood<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Era,
Sweden, and so on<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">With
more value in pairs<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Yet
our mouths hang open<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">At
a lonely chair’s yield<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"> We
hover around it<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"> Concoct
an enigma<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"> Touch
its skin<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">As
if we are getting to know<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">What
has been for years<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">A
thing unacknowledged<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Just
a chair in the corner<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Slid
carefully over maple<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Into
the heart of the room</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Sitting, surrounded, I feel<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">The supple charisma of 16<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Year old patina<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> How
much could you get?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> What would you buy instead?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> Go their young tongues</span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Unlikely,
its new value:<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Bounded by children<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">In
a stark light</span></p>
Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-67258105229251660222021-12-19T18:11:00.004-06:002021-12-19T18:12:38.534-06:00If only I could stop remembering<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgER-I-oZYN8-MaPToWholEhDVXXkrhCtYUIu1JVPNTSuTdFchdeyba0C8btxz5ENEC9I7E7bZE_fcFJlJ-RSSn9CgCeNwZH-zt5f5QpK_-Vw-4Mto6GE5vGoPp4d5j3AUn2cYBBVf4Ar_J/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgER-I-oZYN8-MaPToWholEhDVXXkrhCtYUIu1JVPNTSuTdFchdeyba0C8btxz5ENEC9I7E7bZE_fcFJlJ-RSSn9CgCeNwZH-zt5f5QpK_-Vw-4Mto6GE5vGoPp4d5j3AUn2cYBBVf4Ar_J/w200-h113/sdoor-pano_21897.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;">From Here to There, and Back Again</b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">I found an antique door to match<br /> The others upstairs and finally got
it hung<br /> In my 116 year old house<br />With some penache<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Restoring something to its
original<br />A cause celebre, or chasing after
the wind<br />Says King Solomon. Nonetheless<br />I’m looking up<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>The neck muscles groan a little<br />And a headache comes on, but the
tangles<br /> of the hammock don’t keep me from<br />Rocking a while<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>With another cup of coffee<br />Remembering what responsibility
was<br /> When the kids were young, when
rocking<br /> Was not for me<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>It would all be capacious, this space
of life<br />Except that the man on the internet
cautions<br />To carry a load heavy enough<br />To hurt a little<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Even if you’re taking up a burden<br />
<a name="_Hlk90827693">From
here to there, and back again<br /></a>To fog the lense, the omniscient
lense<br />Of your pathos<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>And so, I have hung a door<br />With precision, drilled the latch
strike, refurbished<br />The dusty innards of the mortise lock
to click snug<br />Shut like 1905<br /> <o:p> <br /></o:p>If only I could stop remembering<br />The laughter, going back and
forth to Minneapolis<br />And the amazing smile of the
woman<br /> I have loved</span></div>
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Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-22712640260984957002021-12-12T13:25:00.001-06:002021-12-12T13:25:14.881-06:00This is us in the future, taken out to lunch by human kin who we will never know.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdgjfLZRiU9V1LLUMjhLvZwqODrNM48iUN7z9r_DkGVay4h5AtqTK1m09qW8Q7YXygi59TWSrzSg-gwbrtPrrZ_guDorVnD1iv2VmBtbiDTVQRftm2oiPagJiVqaeRFn01-7_V0Xpb6cn/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="852" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdgjfLZRiU9V1LLUMjhLvZwqODrNM48iUN7z9r_DkGVay4h5AtqTK1m09qW8Q7YXygi59TWSrzSg-gwbrtPrrZ_guDorVnD1iv2VmBtbiDTVQRftm2oiPagJiVqaeRFn01-7_V0Xpb6cn/w200-h113/11.webp" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Lunch With A Cranium</span></b></div></span></div><p></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">We wander underneath the shivering
limbs<br />Of <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Č</span>esk<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">é</span> Bud<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ě</span>jovice, hungry in the belly<br />Overstepping the pits of an
archeological dig<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Or is it plumbing work, unlicensed<br />
Raising our cousins from the raw
soils<br /> in heaps, to poke up from their piles?<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Unholy holes, everywhere we have
roamed<br />Earth’s pregnant past, in the cities,<br />
Depraved villages, fire-scared caves<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>And burial pits filled with taboos<br />Since the first seeds were strewn<br />By subjects of crown or headman<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Along the church wall, in the
shadows<br />We stoop to inspect an adult, by
size<br />Stained ochre in the darkest way<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>I hold you in my hands, precious being<br />Gone from the memory of mind<br />Your cranium as empty as ours of
you<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>No doubt you have borne the cold<br />So we bring you to lunch; you sit
beside us<br />Under a warm coat at the wooden bench<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>We talk about times before the nation
state<br />How you would have enjoyed the knedliky
and beer<br />On a more animated day<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>A shame has come about. I carry
you across<br /> Samsonova Ka<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">š</span>na
to drop you off<br /> With a prayer of soul and bone<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>At church, in your conversant pile<br />With your kinsmen—the beggars,
serfs and wenches<br />To rest in peace<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Thanks for joining us for lunch<br />It’s been so long. Let’s get out
more<br /> To convive again<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p><b><o:p> <br /></o:p></b><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although we did
return the cranium safely to its<br /> </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>exact spot in the
ramshackle pile of dirt and bones,<br /> </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I regret this adolescent-minded
misadventure and<br /> </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>strongly believe that
the ethical mores of any<br /> </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>community should be respected.</span></i></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-36288620318340370892021-12-11T23:24:00.008-06:002021-12-19T18:20:16.680-06:00When the phone is finally caged, you are free as pulsing jazz at dusk, with all its tentacles.<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN5nw0taayMNc01_HBCraAFYOmcOKJiro4-ltuH_HkM4AiS1uelVtfge9I_McCj2j-V3cPptAITkGV4RmfqUsn02HemnInzy4vKyfumClhZx87GEAf_8At1azt0ZYUW9KpkUlrwrSvGoJY/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN5nw0taayMNc01_HBCraAFYOmcOKJiro4-ltuH_HkM4AiS1uelVtfge9I_McCj2j-V3cPptAITkGV4RmfqUsn02HemnInzy4vKyfumClhZx87GEAf_8At1azt0ZYUW9KpkUlrwrSvGoJY/w200-h200/image.png" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /> </span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>When The Phone Is Finally Caged </b><br /><br /> <br />When the phone is finally caged<br />And you are free as pulsing jazz<br />At dusk, with all its tentacles <br /><br />You may then be aware <br />How the room surrenders to poems <br />Your eyes widening with each <br /><br />Each better than the last <br />In an evening collapse of color <br />As the cicadas go calm <br /><br />And birds land in your palm<br />With kisses from Grandma <br />Caressing pecks, twenty-three <br /><br />Years later, fresh with onion <br />But tonight, in New York City <br />Your friend who has it all <br /><br />Speaks of pain meds <br />And anguish, angustía <br />In Spanish <br /><br />In Spanish, they say, <br />We make the dust <br />Glow if we can <br /><br />In the disappearing moments<br />So thank the gods at dusk<br />And the poems, their birds and kisses</span>
Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-83125810445023682122021-11-26T15:29:00.004-06:002021-12-11T23:28:29.032-06:00No emoji can explain your face when the cathedral is burning.<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe5EgO6j-plndsojVN-GLDsVlMNZxw6UBFk15qZ9J9h2RHQb4-uDzfURxyHYrIZ_lstRXDPADD5cR7_o1ey6p4DDpOaid1ERdbYwHRNPAKmNtR6a5rDVvy0gvir_sckH6shmB-HcA_gDjs/s1200/5cc20955227a5.image.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="1200" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe5EgO6j-plndsojVN-GLDsVlMNZxw6UBFk15qZ9J9h2RHQb4-uDzfURxyHYrIZ_lstRXDPADD5cR7_o1ey6p4DDpOaid1ERdbYwHRNPAKmNtR6a5rDVvy0gvir_sckH6shmB-HcA_gDjs/w200-h135/5cc20955227a5.image.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b><o:p> <br /></o:p><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;">When the Cathedral is Burning</span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">When St. Raphael’s Cathedral burned, it was a homeless man</span><br style="font-family: times;" /><span style="font-family: times;">Camped among pews with his harmless prayers and fire</span><br style="font-family: times;" /><span style="font-family: times;">He couldn’t save the stone walls, but the glorious steeple</span><br style="font-family: times;" /><span style="font-family: times;">Laid for a decade in a parking lot to be re-imagined</span><br style="font-family: times;" /><o:p style="font-family: times;"> <br /></o:p><span style="font-family: times;">Before it too was scrapped, and you wonder</span><br style="font-family: times;" /><span style="font-family: times;">How many days until the sun goes down, how many stones</span><br style="font-family: times;" /><span style="font-family: times;">In your own walls will crumble, or pop to dust</span><br style="font-family: times;" /><span style="font-family: times;">From a poor man’s judgement?</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p><br /></o:p>The walls of your house are in no
rush to age<br />You have cleared a place to plant
cherry or plum this morning<br />Shopping for a tree, you get the
call, wander the parking lot for reception<br /> The maple leaves have finally
turned<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>The reddest leaves to be found--beaming--before
she tells you<br />Saving one after another:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Captivated by color smothered in snow<br />You loved her; it was clear: Years
of evolution ahead, dancing in streams<br />Sabbatical in Spain. The
foothills of Kilimanjaro<br /> <o:p> <br /></o:p>Furniture is dumped to the dark
wet street while green lights yield to yellow<br /> And blinks of red. You will not be
told everything, for she is kind<br />There will be no tree, you tell
your friends. Searching for words<br />Yet no emoji can explain your
face when the cathedral is burning</span></div>
Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-56409807673855523912021-11-26T14:05:00.001-06:002021-12-11T23:30:33.678-06:00Over The Falls. In Memoriam<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b style="text-indent: -9pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMNfObRH3o9cv_mRhZLqmm9WoFcNPu_ke86ztgK_8tLTlbYubCPMBk6hAUXSuG2f2OGQ6kLizrQaEmnghJBPoH_VHZBahjqZakggfaeSwHv_mr9_cBxDtylhoD3T_ug3ChUwd02HCsOCDQ/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="424" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMNfObRH3o9cv_mRhZLqmm9WoFcNPu_ke86ztgK_8tLTlbYubCPMBk6hAUXSuG2f2OGQ6kLizrQaEmnghJBPoH_VHZBahjqZakggfaeSwHv_mr9_cBxDtylhoD3T_ug3ChUwd02HCsOCDQ/" width="188" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></span><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -9pt;">Over The Falls</b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">For Hallie Pope
Jackson Vavrus. 1925-2021<br /><o:p></o:p></span> <br />Once upon a time,<br />A woman, her daughters and son<br />The telling of stories, reading
aloud<br />And grace soaring from her lips <br /> <br />Once upon a time, in Minneapolis,<br />A man named George Floyd<br />The burning buildings, disease<br />The final verdict<br /> <br />And yet, the woman said, “Thank
you”<br />“We should always graciously
accept<br />What we are offered,” she said<br />The children leaned in<br /> <br />Grandkids held hands soft and
thin<br />As nothing they had ever known<br />No one left her bedside<br />Unchanged<br /> <br />Water from a sponge<br />Until even that seized<br />Still, on her lips, thank you<br />When water wet them<br /> <br />Not far from her bed, Minnehaha<br /> She is called. Water waterfall in
Anishinaabe<br />As a man named Longfellow didn’t
get it right<br />But water is forgiving<br /> <br />Around thinning, skeletal
limestone,<br /> Nothing is concrete; nothing set
in stone<br />Her waters pour abundantly down,<br />Beyond and gracious<br /> <br />Until she seizes up<br />Her pouring turns to shards<br />And people gather in awe<br />At a blue mass of memory<br /> <br />A woman named Hallie Vavrus<br />Has gone too, over the falls<br />Wetted, loved and grateful<br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">Into the freeze, beyond</span></span></div>
Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-75961636127946356992021-11-08T22:34:00.003-06:002021-11-26T14:10:29.266-06:00An urban cemetery, a mummified squirrel and serene deer near a street that riots.<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKovb3stAn5_kLed1IA_B1-_LtFzFw0axv-P1YHC0k0PRKKL8KPhiPRFDlvoGz-5JBKuwvAKKTUmlB8UUCBrI2QwLnMUYW6GuU_IBoHF-QzJ8u2XrtYeZM4B6t3H3jsvOk1Jha1C-Rq1_y/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1280" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKovb3stAn5_kLed1IA_B1-_LtFzFw0axv-P1YHC0k0PRKKL8KPhiPRFDlvoGz-5JBKuwvAKKTUmlB8UUCBrI2QwLnMUYW6GuU_IBoHF-QzJ8u2XrtYeZM4B6t3H3jsvOk1Jha1C-Rq1_y/w200-h116/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;">Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery</b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p> <br /></o:p>I.<br />Two deer breathe calm inside
gates of iron<br />Among the headstones, underneath
trees<br />Of an urban cemetery, in Minneapolis<br />On Lake Street, where sirons, where
the riots<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>II.<br /> Nearby, a woman finds a squirrel
clutching a branch<br />Teeth bared, mummified. From
shovel to bag<br />Into another bag, into the
alleyway trash<br />And barely aware, like the deer, we
lay under trees<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>III.<br />We talk of cysts in the uterus<br />Women’s bodies, hysterectomies<br />Where to be buried, or buried at
all<br />When the earth is full in the
belly<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>IV.<br /> We hear there’s an option to mix
your ashes<br />With the free soil from the city compost<br />And you are planted with trees<br />In parks with children and lovers<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>V.<br /> But who wouldn’t want a stone<br />Not cut and polished, nor your
name in seriphs<br />But a rock thrown skyward in time
by a trunk<br />Holding yourself over the Lake Street
calm?<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>VI.<br />Caught in the woody clutch of an
oak<br />To be forgotten within a
generation by the internet<br />With a legacy hanging weighty
over the souls<br />The deer, and bottles of Thunderbird</span></div>
Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-40091783847837391542021-08-23T14:40:00.007-05:002021-12-11T23:40:23.419-06:00Coming back from Mexico.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpZ4er9mYMmtkFqTxV9nxds79v2yI0Vms4KZRIOSqYq2I7LnrG9nNy6_6p8z37UjmGw0wn-g5QxJiqVqPJ_hnMTyNqDcFe6UOpxSBhmBJ69mkEkE1BL5FInpzILzUuuMiREgfKdIK7XLwJ/s2048/20210814_153955_Film1%257E3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1401" data-original-width="2048" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpZ4er9mYMmtkFqTxV9nxds79v2yI0Vms4KZRIOSqYq2I7LnrG9nNy6_6p8z37UjmGw0wn-g5QxJiqVqPJ_hnMTyNqDcFe6UOpxSBhmBJ69mkEkE1BL5FInpzILzUuuMiREgfKdIK7XLwJ/w200-h137/20210814_153955_Film1%257E3.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: times;">Coming Home From Mexico</b></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">I take a bus from O'hare<br />Where a fight has erupted</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">And the driver pleads for understanding</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">Then everything goes asleep</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">Without tranquility</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Walk through the capital city</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">Past midnight. Not a soul</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">Playing the guitarron</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">I find my car</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Where I once lived</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">The morning after, the kitchen</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">Without cracked tiles, or coffee</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">Laying down in the street,</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">The sunflowers are too heavy</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">To stand</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Everything is sterilized at the Coop</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">I pour coffee from a carafe with immaculate stickers</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">While t</span><span style="font-family: times;">wins in red polka dot dresses</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">Cover their mouths at the produce</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Outside, under green striped umbrellas</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">Everyone pristine, worked-out</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">And we are all looking up</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">As the homeless woman</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">In the parking lot</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">Asks for alms</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">While dragging her leg,</span><br /><span style="font-family: times;">Black as barro negro</span></div><div><br /></div>Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-6531764905811802182021-05-05T23:05:00.006-05:002021-05-05T23:08:27.590-05:00Let us crush broken shells in our palms<div style="text-align: left;"><b><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFlSs2Ui89DTEtoQJ7r-KQQwgA-5DmrYXIOJlOFvxK9M69pByE8OJD6-MwDjdvmUh6z2WcaWyTUqQH07ww2GuzjcFtRLB6tTG3yFogumsga2sgBbkC7s8hNu9iBXI-Gkk52hs3MO6WY98m/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFlSs2Ui89DTEtoQJ7r-KQQwgA-5DmrYXIOJlOFvxK9M69pByE8OJD6-MwDjdvmUh6z2WcaWyTUqQH07ww2GuzjcFtRLB6tTG3yFogumsga2sgBbkC7s8hNu9iBXI-Gkk52hs3MO6WY98m/w200-h112/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt;">Shed
Your Skin</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">When
we go to bed without desire<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Like
a fire going out, the soul dims<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Let us crush<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Broken shells in our palms<br /></span><b><span><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></b><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Mangy
beasts whose eyes do not blink<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">They
make no sound, but are herd in the dark<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Not
mirrors, but they stare us back<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Slick
and black, draining charge<br /></span><b><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></b><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">These
are the long swaths<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Let’s
call them the months, constantly<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Breaking
down. Let’s acknowledge<br /> </span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">How
hard they have become<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Total
up the number of weaknesses<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Of
the brain. Multiply by months<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Add
hair loss, awelessness, laws of life<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">And
the excruciating screen<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Add
choices for our nation of chimps<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Add
the heavy burden of keeping track<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Multiply
by desire<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Divide
by exhaustion<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Eels,
we gasp and slide<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">On
our bellies over rocks<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">In
severe spirals<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">When
the stream is done<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Slither,
succumb<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Squander
time walking the planet<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">On
Google Earth<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Zero
in on seashores and rooftops<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Shed
your skin there<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Wander
like a big cat<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Without
blinking<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Forget
count<br /> </span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">In
the candle flicker, lay your head in my lap<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">As
my middle finger traces your lips<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Persists
through the canyon<br /></span><span face=""Arial Narrow",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Of
your breasts</span></span></div>
Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-33580691323934067102021-03-01T17:19:00.005-06:002021-03-05T17:49:49.721-06:00Dear students on a cliff about to fly<p><b><span style="font-family: times;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqr5Ckhfnq6CvD-mKCfBMuAkAZhMHcHjen5y8IK-hNRpDWYv1QTh_PqhXG6j4DAXSMQMzPB4N9VdBbntHkuuuXPrJRYu81Isj_QOqjDJK7pbE1LgeirlcdjJkXkhopTryEY0VjoKtP-skv/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="474" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqr5Ckhfnq6CvD-mKCfBMuAkAZhMHcHjen5y8IK-hNRpDWYv1QTh_PqhXG6j4DAXSMQMzPB4N9VdBbntHkuuuXPrJRYu81Isj_QOqjDJK7pbE1LgeirlcdjJkXkhopTryEY0VjoKtP-skv/w200-h133/image.png" width="200" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><br /></span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: times;">Dear
students on a cliff about to fly,</span></b><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">(Commencement Speech, 2021)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">Channel
the wisdom of a gnarly-bearded god in flowy tunic:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">Seek
your heaven from the sky down, from your own dump site, or cry pit, or
privileged cage. Do not bury your heads in your hands, confounded students, but
look deep within. No, not that deep. Avoid that memory. Look beyond certain
feelings. Much of who you have become is a web of ten-thousand illusions. Keep
most of them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">Scan the
horizons of your future. Not so far. Not that horizon. Skip certain vistas. Be
completely honest with yourself and others. Except for the truth altogether.
Tread water between those shores.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">Delight
in the moment. You only have that moment. However, struggle. Plan. Envision.
Scratch at the surface of the ice as if you have fallen through and cannot breathe. Take a breath with the urgency of screaming under the surface.
Adapt your game. Smile a little when you scream.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">In fact,
smile always. Your smiles are authentic and robust. Practice into the sky until
they feel fake. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">Do not
bury yourself into your screen. You lean in into it like a plant at the window.
Break the window, to be abundantly outside, and sculpt a crystal ball. Only
bend over your crystal ball.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Don’t forget to brush.
Ignore death, or, think a ton about death. There is no gnarly-bearded god. While
on your precipice, know that you are the sage. Do the right thing, and be
yourself. Break the rules; fuck around like there’s no tomorrow. In fact, there
is no tomorrow, and yesterday is a blur. Move carefully—no, exquisitely!
Whatever you do, keep moving, unfettered. Cast your bread upon the waters.</span></span><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Congratulations.</span></span></div>Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-18466690564739786802021-03-01T17:09:00.002-06:002021-05-05T23:28:10.994-05:00Dear bones on the lake, half poking out and half frozen in<div style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;"><o:p><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTtb9_QRILScWWeT5IFLO0J_q4aZTURVtKZag&usqp=CAU" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="276" height="133" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTtb9_QRILScWWeT5IFLO0J_q4aZTURVtKZag&usqp=CAU" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></b></o:p></span></div><div style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">Dear Bones on the Lake,</b></div><div style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Deer bones on the lake<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Half poking out and half frozen in<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Had you ambled to this barren center?<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Been dragged by a wolf?<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">We are the deer, wondering how<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">We have arrived on this cold berth<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Another day of pandemic dread<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">I have read the news to death<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Healthy and delicious meals, check<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">What’s the matter with following<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Birds for a raison d’etre<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">In their arithmetic of destination?<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">This sterile expanse, we call our checklist<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Staves off choices until our dreams<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Unmistakably point the direction<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">To the center of it all. We might as well<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Wander out too far to be discovered<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Like following birds to our terminus </span></div>
Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-48474065624869375352021-03-01T16:53:00.001-06:002021-03-01T16:53:08.726-06:00When words will matter as nothing does<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE6p0WpYQdbWyRD4leR61pQND9AF800q-2MTn470TNMHrBI914WbkY7UwDDY-j4tEMxUOJAKASmR4byWx7Sa21rZkVfX6ccMZB4Qx4qkzPtCK2aTYsSxN9v-qm_CE5OWYGAlRBtget47Qg/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE6p0WpYQdbWyRD4leR61pQND9AF800q-2MTn470TNMHrBI914WbkY7UwDDY-j4tEMxUOJAKASmR4byWx7Sa21rZkVfX6ccMZB4Qx4qkzPtCK2aTYsSxN9v-qm_CE5OWYGAlRBtget47Qg/w200-h136/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;">Some Poets' Words</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <br />Some
poets’ words imbed in concrete<br />Some
hewn in would, or spewed in blood<br />Are
just cliché enough for walking over<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>No
prescience from their trite run-ons<br />Except
for thought bubbles, uttered as<br />We
scrape and shovel them in lines<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>I
could write a thousand poems more deft<br />And
never see one typed into proud slabs<br />Or
scribbled on banana peels, tossed in my grave<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>You
could write forever in the ice, fierce<br />And
lonely tongue, yet never see the street<br />Light
your arrogant and beautiful remark<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>We
could scrawl all night on the Great Sphinx<br />with
hip-hop paint and CNN, and the words<br /> would
wash away; we’d post bail in gineih<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Once
you see the Jesus Christ Lizard<br /> Dance
across a rio like Fred Astaire<br />Its
ripples dissipate quicker than you or I<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Only
then can you cure concrete envy<br />When
all poems sweep into the sea<br />Or
space beyond--the weight of walks<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Their
pounds will be replaced by calm<br />Pouring
buoyant on the entrails of clocks<br />When
words will matter as nothing does</span></div>
Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-39700520510428973132021-02-08T23:31:00.018-06:002021-02-24T11:52:41.622-06:00There is something you've never noticed about a circle.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCyqA0ZB5N3FdIW0rP3iNtCGc983x_lGUnDrU_QdCf4Qb2_j6ygAa9-rGWyoBb13dXoeg2-FUz7IdVxzoGstlXD22sRBuxy5Un6DYWsjEoEvNFXyYH5J8KPdilzIVlFtSW3m-mmaWh08LL/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="474" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCyqA0ZB5N3FdIW0rP3iNtCGc983x_lGUnDrU_QdCf4Qb2_j6ygAa9-rGWyoBb13dXoeg2-FUz7IdVxzoGstlXD22sRBuxy5Un6DYWsjEoEvNFXyYH5J8KPdilzIVlFtSW3m-mmaWh08LL/w200-h125/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><b><span style="font-family: times;"> Look
Again</span></b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times;"> There
is something you’ve never noticed about a circle </span><span style="font-family: times;">Look
again. Grasp the midpoint, then absolve yourself of it </span><span style="font-family: times;">Circles
begin nowhere/do not exist, say the mathematicians </span><span style="font-family: times;">That
an infinite number of points make up a curve that </span><span style="font-family: times;">Comes
around to join back to itself, ebullient and round</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times;"> Do
not look at that line anymore, and avoid the center </span><span style="font-family: times;">Look
inward, diving into the space between, as it expands </span><span style="font-family: times;">As
the universe, roaming lost, without concern for form </span><span style="font-family: times;">I</span><span style="font-family: times;">magine
a dry, fall field dusted in a zillion snow flakes </span><span style="font-family: times;">Where
a little deer stares back at you, stunned yet calm</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times;"> Naturally,
it saw you first. Of course, you were distracted </span><span style="font-family: times;">By
peering at the center. You are making something happen </span><span style="font-family: times;">You’ve
had an expectation--yet another fear--and it flees </span><span style="font-family: times;">But
you have missed that too. You have become one with </span><span style="font-family: times;">A
humanity of pessimists:</span><span style="font-family: times; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">The trash is
half full</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times;"> When
you go to bed without desire to, a fire goes out </span><span style="font-family: times;">Before
the day is gone. Shed your skin without blinking </span><span style="font-family: times;">As
a salamander, squandering time slinking the planet </span><span style="font-family: times;">The
mosses, stoned riverbeds on your belly, crawling </span><span style="font-family: times;">Puzzles
of hot rocks, avoiding edges, forgetting count</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: times;">Amongst the Navajo, the skinwalkers, roaming witches </span><span style="font-family: times;">Yee naaldlooshii, which means, ‘He goes on all
fours’ </span><span style="font-family: times;">To disguise as, and become a beast, calm or growling </span><span style="font-family: times; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Be unaware.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> Forget the number of limits of the
brain </span><span style="font-family: times;">Multiply
by months, add choices for a nation of chimps</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: times;">Divide
by desire. Slither past all sunburnt recollections </span><span style="font-family: times;">Wandering
living thing, through the burden of long swaths </span><span style="font-family: times;">Collecting
abundant streams of time. Let’s acknowledge </span><span style="font-family: times;">How
hard it has become--a vortex, narrowing, accelerating </span><span style="font-family: times;">With
options, and the excruciating screen</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times;"> Lay
your head on my lap by the candle flicker. I’ll retract </span><span style="font-family: times;">My
claws to trace your lips, stroke your eyes closed, run </span><span style="font-family: times;">Through
your hair like a forest without a center. Go on </span><span style="font-family: times;">All
fours, naked-unaware in the best way, ignoring reigns </span><span style="font-family: times;">Summoning
the round limitlessness of blowing out</span></p>Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-73803726132703781832020-11-15T19:02:00.002-06:002021-02-24T11:51:01.329-06:00Addendum to a Woman Wearing Orange on the Franklin Avenue Bridge<div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKD5oNyIWIn92Z2YOfkXOKe8LLd5Ctk9ES3x75rVrfESQ46cE7DaaUGsyo9nbRD5kL3YgKMWgb9b8jBUmNJUAgNkI3467-VrVY6zlU11mheLtl3E_lEHcKbFQ2bM-jN_nzQUbnfLc_sQdL/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="474" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKD5oNyIWIn92Z2YOfkXOKe8LLd5Ctk9ES3x75rVrfESQ46cE7DaaUGsyo9nbRD5kL3YgKMWgb9b8jBUmNJUAgNkI3467-VrVY6zlU11mheLtl3E_lEHcKbFQ2bM-jN_nzQUbnfLc_sQdL/w200-h104/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /></b><b><span style="font-family: times;">Addendum </span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: times;">(to a Woman Wearing Orange on the Franklin Avenue Bridge) </span></b><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><br />Three months later where the homeless sat <br />I wonder about you, out over the Mississippi <br />From the northeast bank <br /><br />You might not have ventured out on such a day <br />Of ice and wind: Grim counterpoint to your sunshine <br />Haunting the river <br /><br />There have been others since, I imagine <br />From bridges this high, and like most events months later <br />It’s inconsequential <br /><br />You remind me of things broken, however <br />The dishes of our lives, drown in landfills <br />And running out of gas <br /><br />What a lofty way you went out, searching <br />For you in the news, hoping. Nowhere to be found <br />In the cloud <br /><br />A little secret in journalism for the sake of others <br />Not publishing suicides. Or did you find your way <br />Back over? <br /><br />I have not seen anyone in orange since <br />Your strange and lovely day, when you chose to contemplate <br />It all away <br /><br />Rembrandt posed his models with candlelight <br />Muted warm with austere darks, considering the crux <br />Of their lives <br /><br />Likewise, you hang onto the bridge in my memory <br />In a dark hallway, modeling the others <br />From your parapet <br /><br />All the cheesecake, YouTube videos, bright orange <br />And yet, you slumped somehow, and it all made sense <br />That afternoon <br /><br />Not enough dopamine, a breakup maybe, bad parenting <br />Trauma, or a lost mind. We all lose that at times, go blind <br />For no good reason <br /><br />Here on the bench, overlooking you, being thankful <br />For the sticks, the slush with dog piss, for a bench <br />Cold as memory <br /><br />Thankful for you, good woman, for not leaping, perhaps <br />And the precarious arch that spans past to present <br />And maybe beyond</span></div>Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-83968409430241456032020-08-28T00:33:00.002-05:002021-05-05T23:19:51.565-05:00The poetics of madness<p><b> </b><img alt="Alice: Madness Returns Soundtrack (Full) - YouTube" height="113" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DEr_5C6JYB4/maxresdefault.jpg" width="200" /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Not a Grave
Poem</span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Keep from me
the livid quiver of uncertain poems, the poetics of madness</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> their bridgewalking
words</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Not a grave
poem, or set of thoughts on struggle</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> with another
metaphor of death</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">I cannot
channel one more sad line, mine others’ pain</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> whose eyes
sink low on the head</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Nor can I
gouge out my own pain, summoning illusions of equanimity</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> in the
crying room of childhood</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Not dismay,
disgust, depression or doom, nor any other D word</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> scrawled
into the history of gall</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a name="_Hlk49466286"><span style="font-family: times;">Spare me, screen, from the livid quiver of uncertain poems,
the poetics of madness<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> their bridgewalking words</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Mark my word.
A thin slice of now--limitedly aware of itself--tunnels</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> straight to
its scarce root</span></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></p>Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-13939236673134868612020-08-06T23:35:00.002-05:002020-08-06T23:45:45.370-05:00Dear woman on the bridge<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9HfLFvHAwdDl6vsGpJ-exrZhyzjJ59jZVwxSJ2t6eWVKBBUT5tj4CUshMtBiuis8aa1Qz4TXM-VJlkp9nBVpBxnxDp_-8Z0ZRqpwJ2jwbqSLTILNk4VBj2u65SuMCQIexWXVS11jwoxhi/s252/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9HfLFvHAwdDl6vsGpJ-exrZhyzjJ59jZVwxSJ2t6eWVKBBUT5tj4CUshMtBiuis8aa1Qz4TXM-VJlkp9nBVpBxnxDp_-8Z0ZRqpwJ2jwbqSLTILNk4VBj2u65SuMCQIexWXVS11jwoxhi/s0/images.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Woman Wearing Orange on the Franklin Avenue Bridge</span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">Today, we could not cross back over</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Franklin Avenue Bridge, the flashing lights</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">Suggested an accident</span></span></p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">It’s about four seconds down to the Mississippi</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">Could a car have blown through the rail?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">Ask a young Somali guy watching from a bench</span></span></p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">He points it out, and all you see</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">Where the perfect arc of strength thins at the apex</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">Is her orange blouse</span></span></p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">A homeless man’s arms flail up to the heavens</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">Such things on a Sunday afternoon seem inconsequential</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">Until you see her form</span></span></p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">And you pedal southeast to the Lake Street Bridge</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">Averting your eyes as you cross</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">The mighty river</span></span></p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">Dear woman wearing orange,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">Look around you, see us on the banks, rooting</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">And climb back over</span></span></p><br /><br />Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-32048108852470039522020-07-11T00:54:00.006-05:002020-07-11T01:53:37.570-05:00Her Name. Buried at sea. 1912.<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="font-family: times;"><img alt="RMS Carpathia To The Rescue | GG Archives" height="146" src="https://www.gjenvick.com/DigitalAssets/Periodicals/TheIllustratedLondonNews/1912-05-11/697-RMSCarpathia-TitanicvRescueShip-500.jpg" width="320" /></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="font-family: times;">Her Name </b><i style="font-family: times;">For Ana. Buried
at sea. 1912</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><font face="times"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Everyone mentions</font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><font face="times"><span></span></font><span style="font-family: times;">The bobbing life vests</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">From the rescue ship, dotting<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">The distance “like seabirds”<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Amongst the bergs<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><font face="times"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Everyone mentions<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">The number of survivors<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">In journal entries and letters<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Hands thawing aboard the Carpathia<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Crying happiness, and horror, and shame<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><font face="times"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Everyone mentions <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">The chivalry as it sank<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">How orderly the gentlemen<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">In lines, the band, yet very little<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Of third class<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><font face="times"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Everyone mentions<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">How kind the passengers <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Mending their clothing, surrendering <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Blankets, giving up their rooms<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">To sleep on deck<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><font face="times"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">On the 18th of April, however<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">After bobbing images of frozen bodies<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Had sunk in, a funeral<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">For victims, and one other<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">At the stern<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times"><br /></font></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">No
one mentions<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">These
five souls<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Wrapped
in bedsheets<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Weighted,
to be dropped<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Into
the Atlantic<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><font face="times"> </font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Some
mention<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">The
clergyman’s prayers<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">A few
passengers, crew, survivors<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Gathered.
But lost to history is<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">The
baby’s name<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><font face="times"> </font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">It
was her first born<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">A
daughter. On her way<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Back
to the old country<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">She
had given up her room<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Ana
Pavel<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><font face="times"> </font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Was
her name<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Everyone
went back to New York<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Where
the Titanic had been heading<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">And
the family would never<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Meet
again<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><font face="times"> </font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">I
mention her<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Little
known, but not forgotten baby<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">Because
she was my aunt<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">And may
she rest<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font face="times">In
peace<o:p></o:p></font></p><br /><p></p>Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-50456367530422993772020-05-03T14:35:00.004-05:002021-02-09T00:08:28.049-06:00Parable of the horizon and sky. Actually, an allegory of the pandemic <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; clear: left; float: left; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Parable of the Horizon and Sky</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Someone
spilled milk into the sky</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">soaking
the blueberry cream tart</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">oozing
with scoops of orange sherbet</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">dripping
over yellow flan puffs and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">into
the maple cracks of dusk</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">But
the floor of the horizon</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">could
not think to pick it up</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Instead,
it held the disarray in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">his
gaze until his eyes drooped</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">and
barely any light shone back</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">And
the world turned in</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">When
glittered crystals of sugar</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">blinked
like a city upside down</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Syrupy
shapes made a dim morass</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">of beauty, into blue air muddle</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Like
opium smoke in 1868</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lying
down, he whispered to himself</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">lines
of Gibran, Neruda</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">conjuring
memories of sky</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">when
clean, free of spills</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">or
blurring color</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Those
were the clear times</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">that
the horizon would now</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">only
see at distance</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ahead,
the honeyed dome</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">a
sweet and flaky firmament</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dark
omen though it may be</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">with
this acknowledgement</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">he
closed his eyes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">and
kissed the whole</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">body
of the sky</span></div>
</div>
Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-84578941629498458382020-03-31T11:17:00.002-05:002020-03-31T11:17:29.316-05:00Flowing over with (a word goes here)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lay It Down<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This fall’s rime torrents<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Made gardens die sideways<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And pensioners wash away<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Altogether <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Your hide, so thick<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That rains pelted<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But could not wet you<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Flowing over with<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(A word
goes here)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Coming up for air<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A concept you have known<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like an infant smile<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A word you’ve stroked<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Insert that
word here)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We splash in it<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Blissfully about<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When we are pouring over<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The edges<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like all words<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is a symbol<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">For your dusky eyes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Caressing paradise<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Don’t worry about the stove on<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Go as you are<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Leave the place unlocked<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">No mirrors involved<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Gently
lay the word down)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Scream that word<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Run until your pulse<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Drowns all weary<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Exhalation</span><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Gary M Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381779371066583732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959736368807157314.post-88862720667405635762020-03-30T21:03:00.001-05:002020-03-31T10:31:34.313-05:00Until the pandemic...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lean Into It<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You knew no such thing as fear<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In your horse-drawn, stable life<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Until the pandemic<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then, the quinoa plants germinated in three days<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sprouts longing toward the window glare<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Evolving, ridiculing all doubt<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a park on a hill in a crisis<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stands a man, stark<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aroused by color and chill<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You are he, governing the dusk<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Considering the color of friendship<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The scent of who you were with for twenty-four
years<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Smile anyway. Disregard the blinking thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like cop cars at a call<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Watch the orange sun decline on the cityscape<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A yellow seagull flying overhead<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The color of caution signs<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gaze a little more at the sun<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Look out from cliffs<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Where Chumash boys once stood still<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">After throwing stones into the surf<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lean into it<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Zero<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You ask the arc of
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">How exceedingly
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In your life?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alexander the Great met a naked, wise man<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sitting on a rock and staring at the sky, and
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">“What are you doing?”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Facing nothing. What are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> doing?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Conquering the world.” They laughed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thinking each other a fool<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">In the Temple Chaturbhuj, at the fort of
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Carved in a wall, the first zero, nothing</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">To the Buddhists, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shunyata</i></span><span style="font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Draining the pondering mind<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Mathematical zero</span><span style="font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Counting well into the trillions, considering</span><span style="font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Types of infinity<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today, the abundant
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their prolific
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Churn nothing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the beginning, the earth was zero<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without form, and void, a seed for ideas:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Christians
found Satan in nothing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So,
banned zero<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What zeros lurk in your mind, undiscovered?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ask the arc of the
sky how exceedingly well<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is nothing
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">The ibis: Symbol of Thoth, H</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">eralder of floods<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"><i>Threskionis aethiopicus.</i> God of wisdom and writing</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Villagers watched the ibis in their fish ponds<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eating water snails infested with liver parasites<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">At Saqqara’s tombs, interred with the dead: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">One and three quarter million ibis<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Corona!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Her hanging aria, a somnolent bedlam</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Matter of time COVIDia, mashestico e poderosa
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the hymnal, the preschooler’s sleeve<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">A h</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">umid breath</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> on the subway</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">The coffee house cough-cough</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">On the lips of lovers</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">, Corona<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">Her fingertips, borderless refugees</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Taking residence in our eyes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Corona Wuhania!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">She knots the ropes of ships, and brings East
near to West<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">She is the lord of eyes-wide, screening breath
for veracity <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">She soars the sky, citizen of the planet, above
earth and death <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">She violates equally. Her net will d</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">rag our floors
of human coral</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">Dear Corona,</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"> (The Ibis prays)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bridger of cultures, bound to no
ideology <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Illusory virus omnipotente: Forgive
them,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">For they know not what they do<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></div>
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