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The Black
“We’ll know as children again all we are destined to know that the water is cold and deep, and the sun penetrates only so far.” – Jim Harrison Reeling a slipping from reality down into the coldest darkness there is nothing here but invisible… Continue Reading “The Black”
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Roots
“Prolonged exposure to nature gives one a sort of grammatica pardo*, a wisdom of the soil.” ~ Jim Harrison, from A Really Big Lunch *to be worldly-wise; know the ways of the world In the cloister under the canopy of the Mesquite all life’s wisdom… Continue Reading “Roots”
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Minstrels
“I’ve spent a lifetime trying to learn the language of the dead” ~ Jim Harrison from Sister in Songs of Unreason In the quiet early hours before morning blooms I yearn to catch their voices amid the scattered ruins and revel in… Continue Reading “Minstrels”
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What is Death?
A dying friend once asked of me, what is death? You’re a poet can you tell me please, what should I expect?
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Gravity
“The hardest part is when the river is too swift and goes underground for days on end” ~Jim Harrison from Songs of Unreason My soul the river rushing over stones of memories buried in sand some more grand and beautiful breathless times remembering glistening… Continue Reading “Gravity”
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Spectrum
I took a nap and wept for no reason” ~ Jim Harrison from Songs of Unreason And when I weep are my tears the color of the turquoise sky reflecting in my eyes or are they the white feathered clouds… Continue Reading “Spectrum”
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Sea Level
“The mountains are so dominant that some days the people refuse to look at them as children turn away from the fathers who beat them” ~ Jim Harrison from Songs of Unreason She was the mountaintop on which I stood Breathing the pure air,… Continue Reading “Sea Level”
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