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Poem
pardon my bones
as they will pardon you
pardon my lumbering
as I would if gait
could excuse
as well as include
pardon my bones
they only ache
aloud for you
Sunday, October 15, 2006
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To Have Caged
to have caged God
in His theorems
lust proving sense
sense proving existence
what was left for him
but to wander the valley
as an asthmatic
with no good breathing time
the free breath left
on a mesa yet feathered
only that would open him
as untheorized in that land
where a god roams free
and unhindered destroys all
but sense and a last sense
of what could abate lust
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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In His Movement
in his movement away from material
he denied himself and became almost
silken and slipped beneath the known
shape of things instead of rising above
wafting among the clouds as a lone
parachutist detached from figures
hands joining away from the group
who will rise but sunken slid deeper
into himself until heart beats had
the muscle he'd so longed to deny
so longed to ignore yes
the heart moves to the material
he thought it matters
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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The Reason He
the reason he was so undocumented
his parents disbelieved him (the cause
was lost (along with his early Brownie
snaps)) and being so unrelished
by aftermarket after-effects as 8mm
and pastels from the local boardwalk
he had to continue without sustenance
of Land Camera stylings otherwise events
delimited him and his parents' beliefs
circumscribed him and he was left
(the cause was lost (along with his class
pictures)) urbane but wrong
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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Few Knew
few knew beauty is death
was not his theorem
nor had he bothered to prove
whether beauty had sense
without the lack of sense
implied his love of beauty
occurred absent beauty
time worn flowers pressed
in an old dictionary was near
beauty for him nearer
to death for others
since flowers must lose
their lives to enrich others
but few held him as a return
to a simpler god whose own
dictums seldom flowered
beautifully except in a field
of lilies where we are
not arrayed as one of these
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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