Writer's Work

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100117

WELCOME ASSIST

Tell me something, Muse.
Make my fingers move,
make this paper speak—

“I am valley depth.
I am mountain peak.
Before the any were,
before the all shall end,
I am what I seek.”


100116

WRITE ON

I write on the insides
of envelopes, on the backsides
of sales slips, on the margins
of magazine pages. . .

I write on life, death,
cosmos, humanity, nature,
emotion, language, imagination,
revelation, paradox,
cabbages, kings, the insides
of envelopes, the backsides
of sales slips, the margins
of magazine pages.
I write on and on and on. . .


100115

BEFRIENDING
THE ENEMY

Alright, pain.
Enter in.
Do your worst.
I will do better.


100114

HERE. WITH.

H ere, it clear.
O ther place, I no belong.
M y people with.
E very other place be wrong.


100113

BARE SCAT

exposed
upon the white expanse,
yet scarcely trackable—
a scribbled trail
of thought-droppings


100112

ESSENCE

Life is given,
not a given.


100111

AWAITED ONE

Wonder
of my wondering—
who are you?

Face to face,
some time, some place,
will it be meet
we meet?

You,
who will discover me—
what discovery
will you be?


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