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Guru Allergy
When a guru tells methe things he says he sees,it’s like a pile of pollenthat makes me have to sneeze. When a guru tells methe things he says he knows,I need to blow my mindas if it were my nose… … Continue reading
Inner Tree
I’ve loved the rootednessof fingers intertwined,romantic lovelinessof lives that grow combined,and wondered how I couldsurvive stripped of such roots,and haven’t understooda tree without pursuits: The tree within my chest,that blossoms with each breath,the tree with which I’m blessedroots me within … Continue reading
Empowerment Litany
While there are many powers that I lackand lacking of these powers has been hard,providing ammo for despair’s attack,a burning woe by which my mind was charred, I’ll dwell here on the powers I possess,the powers that I wish to … Continue reading
Rose Cosmos
A rose that lasts a day may never fretabout its afterlife but simply bloom,not sensing its impending end as threat,not sinking into existential gloom. It needn’t seek its purpose in a creed,as of a rose arising from the dead,nor feel … Continue reading
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Dimensions
Beyond the three dimensions where we dwell, or four if we include the one of time, or as string theories claim some ten or twelve, where only mathematically we climb, is one with which I’ve been the most concerned, a … Continue reading
Branching
When I despair from lack of light in me, I recollect in trees there’s no light too, and yet I reach for one as does a tree through different, voluntary things I do. The tree does not despair about itself, … Continue reading
Morning Glories
A morning glory stem will wrap around a sturdy thing to climb toward the sun and won’t reach much above its sprouting ground, if in the neighborhood there isn’t one. If it can’t find a means for its support, a … Continue reading
Grateful Complaint
You shatter me as if I were thin glass, till there is nothing left of me but crumbs, uproot and toss me like a weed from grass, and strike my nerves as if they were your drums; unhinge me from … Continue reading
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Soul Castles
For Marion Shore A castle made of sand could not be kept from being flattened by indifferent tides, and when you thought of its demise you wept, for nothing, in the end, it seems, abides. The platitudes that half-consoled your … Continue reading
Purpose Vision
for Jennifer B. Your sight was twenty-twenty, but at forty an ailment of your eyes caused it to shrink, so its perfection till that time would shortly, and shockingly, to almost nothing sink. And you felt that your life had … Continue reading
Snapshot Couplets 