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The Wall I Didn’t Want To Build
The wall I didn’t want to build is rising between us anyway brick by brick by brick I didn’t realize until recently that I don’t need to intend you harm to do you harm As soon as i learned how i started making the mortar the bricks have always been here The skin of my… Read more
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Touch me kindly
Touch me kindly if you can I don’t know if I can feel any other touch Speak to me softly I will hear I have been training my ears to hear only quiet sounds Look at me with love or mercy if that’s the best that you can do I will look at you with… Read more
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What happens…
What happens is you get old And when you get old, the knives come out And in a moment that is soberingly sad yet wickedly hopeful you realize there is nothing left for those knives to cut Read more
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other than love
Everything other than love is illusion and delusion distraction and destruction a waste of time and degrees of separation and digression from consummation and veils of obstruction and excuses for confusion and medicine for diseases that we haven’t invented yet Read more
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Oh, Christmas Tree
We come into your home, the forest, carrying saws and axes, with no thought of your well being. We disturb your peace. We cut you off from your roots. We let gravity do the hard work of pulling you down to our level where we tie you up, top to bottom, with such rough utility… Read more
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Bedraggled Ostrich
Something special happened to painting in Italy in the 15th Century and to music in America and England in the middle of the last century. Something also must have happened to poetry in Japan around the turn of the 20th Century because I have been intermittently reading the Penguin Book of Japanese Verse with subtle pleasure… Read more
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