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The One Truth
“I see today that everyone on earth wants the answer to the same question but none has the language to ask it.”– Jim Harrison I want to ask the moon how many lovers she has had for I know it must be many with… Continue Reading “The One Truth”
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Fairytale
“Love is raw as freshly cut meat, mean as a beetle on the track of dung.”– Jim Harrison The innocent child in me believes in love with a pure intent the kind of love while dancing in a fairytale trance and wearing glass slippers.
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Panacea for these Lips
The panacea for these lips that yearn to taste the essence is the way the light hits on the glass of ruby wine for hidden in its shadows of blood-red luminescence lies the absolution and restitution for a stressful life.
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Living Left in a Right World
“I’m quite tired of beating myself up to write. I think I’ll start letting the words slip out like a tired child. “Can I have a piece of pie” he asks, and then he’s asleep back on the cusp of the moon.” – Jim… Continue Reading “Living Left in a Right World”
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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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Purity
“You can’t write the clear biography of the aches and pains inside your skull” ~ Harrison from Skull / Songs of Unreason I didn’t decide to be a poet. Rather, the poet found my mind lush fertile ground for prophecies and fantasies to be… Continue Reading “Purity”
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