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Tag: digital collage
Song / Words, that Stick in your Head
Meditate on it — /
New words will come /
Take your time, don’t rush /
But what if /
like a stuck song /
they don’t? / / /
You are forced /
to work with /
what you have’/
and proceed /
from there.
Latest iteration on my business card + Excerpted poem “We”
[…] Punch in, punch out; as the weary depart; you are alert on the headset; she is shifting packages among conveyors, up, down, across slides the latte. Clinkety clink go the coins and rustle of crumpled ones, out of pockets and into tip jars. Brake, stop, go, the drive thru, the sausage biscuits. The scrubs and IVs and X-Rays […]
Night Notes
“Night Notes”, a poem with irregular rhythm. First draft was 2/2/2017, has been extensively cut down because parts were mostly incoherent. A movement awakened, a crowd exposed.Who holds the loudspeakers? Whoweathers the trolls? How long dothey carry? How long hold the seams?What must think the neighbors, andwhat words do they speak? Whatmethods to mend? What […]
Timewise
1st draft written and published January 30, 2017. Expected to rewrite it a lot but didn’t change much. The last two lines are new. For Nextdoor syndication where it doesnt add the headline or featured image, this is a poem called ‘Timewise’. Click the link thou lazy critics. Those memories countless of innumerable days—idle-Lost in […]
Dreaming Plants
Writing, ring-toss ’round the rosies, limits of imagination, checkerboard pattern of climbing vines straightened with Backbone Growing all through the night bedroom, the jungle, where the wild things are & limits unlimited, the mind unbound untwisted untwisting the madness free associating and unwinding on these small pages Cranking out the thoughts like so many fireworks […]
To-Do List No. 1
Each day without fear
Put together what joy you can
Self-assemble satisfaction
Take chances on embarrassment
Boldly talk to strangers
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Do That Which Springs Immediately to Hand
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Lessons learned, no self-reproach
Do not worry, instead merely –
Do that which springs immediately to hand