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Public Bear
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Pooh
Has entered
The public domain
Welcome, Pooh
And Piglet
Tigger
Rabbit
Kanga and Roo
Owl
And the blond boy
With buckles on his shoes
Who made a world
So that our world
Might be
Prettier
And kinder
And we can hope
A little wiser
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Old River
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There is sunshine I haven’t
Seen for a while
Western Pennsylvania had been
Living into its reputation
For precipitation
(there is a flood watch on
because the Ohio,
deep and wide
like the song,
could overmarch its primordial
lines)
I’m glad to be with family
Took two occasions—three if
Counting my sister and hers moving
Here—being New Year’s
And my brother’s illness
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Four out of five
Like the dentists
Have made it here so far
The fifth is coming soon
And I don’t know how to contemplate
What might happen next
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An elder brother’s murder
Was the dilemma for sibling Claudius
Here, cancer wants to commit
The crime,
The murder of my brother’s health
Unlike those of Claudius,
My words fly up with thought
And heaven catches them
I’ll keep offering
And offering
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In long ago, a sacrifice
Might help
But in the suburbs
No such help
Because we’ve grown beyond
The need
Some might say
(and should)
The laws have changed
Now it’s medications, institutions
On another altar
We can kneel and pray
Ancient of days
Will hear
As if it were the temple near
Whose opening we’d approach
As clean and ready
Bearing gifts
As we can be
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selah
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Now roll away, tumors
Like the stone that matched
An opening
So long ago
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Pittsburgh
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Visiting with my Brother in Wintertime
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Tired now
Just got reconnected
And can write to you
Am in
The Renaissance City
City of Bridges
City of Iron
City of Steel
Where my brother is
And cancer in the city, too
In him
It seems to be consuming him
Turning him in
Like a folder being folded
Movements happens cruelly
The pain is slow
Tomorrow the severer
Treatment starts
How this will work in him
How it will solve anything
Well, it could
It might
I can only pray it must
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While skiing down the slopes of Big Sky Montana, I took the chance to slow down and look and capture the incredible beautiful scenery around me. Scenes like this seem to center me, with the stillness of snow settling in.
Photo by Jonathan Knepper on Unsplash
Big Sky Resort Road, Gallatin Gateway, USA
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