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May 2021

The Salton Sea

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The Salton Sea

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I’d like to go into

The desert

Because I don’t know what

I’m saying,

Which isn’t true:

I lived in California

For a time

Went to the desert there

Saw the stars

At night

One day went to Palomar

Never got to

The Salton Sea,

Not knowing what I would

Have found then—

A miasma of

Mismanagement shown

In rusty signs and

Rotted beams

Or tries at reclamation:

Burying

Dead animals

Nailing together boathouses,

Pubs,

And homes

Maybe re-servicing

The Navy base

Maybe putting back in

All the water

That used to be there,

That kept

The crafted ocean

And habitation

Viable

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Salton Sea, California, USA

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The Fall from Mount Meron

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The Fall from Mount Meron

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I can’t imagine

I don’t want

The press of flesh

And muscles and of

Organs and of

Bones

While a ritual

A practice

An assembly turns into

Another kind

Unkind

Remembrance

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It’s brutal

Terrible

One could say

Awful

Filled with awe

And we pray for peace

And wonder how

A time to mourn

Was manifest

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A Pair of Socks

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A Pair of Socks

(from Philippians 4)

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Jesus says don’t worry

Perfect present tense

No need to count

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Flowers contain beauty

On their own

A sparrow falls

I must admit

I like to think it’s caught

Maybe that discloses lack of faith

In falling without catching

When something good

Can happen,

Anyway,

And in a plan of which

I don’t have any understanding

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How do I understand

Victory in a plan for failure?

On a good day

Or a bad one,

I have to embrace paradox

Death for life

Peace for enemies

Even assisting them

Who wants that?

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Blake is good

At embracing contraries

Blake is correct

To do so

South is not the bottom

North is not up here

Certain maps

Do get it right

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We conclude that in Philippi

In a time of persecution

There were directions

Not to be anxious

Over anything

Or to be anxious

Over nothing

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socks in the street

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Devotionism

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Devotionism

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I talk with God

God talks back

Sometimes through

The trees,

As happened last night

When I went out

Encountering a roar

From a single tree

Near the garage,

A tree that always

Reaches

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With the wind,

Maybe someone

From someone

Wanting to take notice

Of the night

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Vegårshei, Norway

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