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Many and Great

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Many and Great

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I’m sorry

There are other things

Wildfires

Wars

Rising oceans

More than tides

Allow

What nature does

What we do

While the Earth permits

Until it can’t

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And I’m concerned

With how

I feel

Even mortally

(with room for veniality

as well)

I am one

How many are you?

You seem more to me

As if a company

Resides

Inside your wall of flesh

Behind your eyes

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And I suppose it’s true

We each might be

Many souls

Maybe carried through

The ages

Or simply facets of

What splits

From our encounters

Here and now

And what remains

Beside our spirits

Mainly

As we become

Like growing jewels

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When permitted,

Like layers

Added to the pearl

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A New Utilitarian

(x = space)

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A New Utilitarian

(that’s us)

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Up all night

Wondering about

Well

Everything

Night means moon

And stars

And all the smaller things

That from our perspective

Fly in small gold

Arcs

The shooting stars

We call them

And then there are the silver

Moving dots of

Satellites

The ISS

Anything else sizable

That’s orbiting

All against the Milky Way

And behind that

The black sheet of outer

Space

Inside all that

I thought

About the things that slow

At night

For most of us

Unless we’re on third shift

Or there’s a fire

Or a crime

Or all the factories

As well as governments

That must be working

To extents

All the time

Or so we have

And use

Our grand design

For industry

For politics

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The slower thoughts will speed up

In the day

Somehow clouds on blue

Mean things are faster

Sunlight now a deadline

Get everything done

You mean to do

Or others mean

For you to do

While I’m still

For when I’m done

For most of us

The billable day is done

(except for the

exceptional things

at night)

It’s time to think of home

Or bars

Or gyms

Or other things that

Work affords

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The fast thoughts

Then

Speak to their own velocity

For production

And for sweating out the deadlines

But I think

There might be

Fast in fast

As well as slow in slow

At night

Thoughts within thoughts

Like wheels within wheels

In large machines

Or complex stories

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What’s faster might be

Say

Inspiration

Intuition

Instinct

The things that have us move

With some rapidity

(maybe with adrenaline’s

assistance)

While the slower might be

Reflection

Cogitation

Consideration

Working out and adding to

The foundation on the inside

That makes us faster

Better

On the outside

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Which means

I think

There is room for fast and slow

For reaction

And respect

Afterwards

Of the situation causing

The reaction

Meaning

(here)

That all the parts of who we are

Like all the parts of day and night

Belong

So we should

Examine that

Otherwise unexamined life

To grow through

Fast and slow

Surface

And latent

Rationale for

Stronger living

More complete

Satisfying

Funner

And productive

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away from all things (haiku)

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away from all things (haiku)

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away from all things

only bloom and branch attract

safety in numbers

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apple blossoms

(safety in numbers)

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The Heart

(x = space)

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The Heart

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I breathe a little

Saturday morning

Last moments

Before noon

When I would be called upon

For chores

Last free moments

Watching another show

As an excuse

Pretending its significance

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Did I have a heart defect

Back then

We’ll never know

Or was I put to work

Too soon

Or was it the lesson that

Work is bad

And I should only be glad

When it’s done

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Whichever way

I was a child who

Wanted to

Escape

And on rainy days

I sat in a chair next to a lamp

In the room saved for

Official company

And rather than

All that

I took the quiet

And went into books

With

Stories that saved

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The mind

The heart

Everything that mattered

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excerpt from “The Heart”

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excerpt from “The Heart”

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I was a child who

Wanted to

Escape

And on rainy days

I sat in a chair next to a lamp

In the room saved for

Official company

And rather than

All that

I took the quiet

And went into books

With

Stories that saved

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Prevaricating Sharks

(x = space)

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Prevaricating Sharks

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I don’t know what

To share

With you today

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How are things with you

How is your health

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How are your

Relations

And your story

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I hope you’re really well

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I’m not sure what

To ask

Without specifics

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I don’t know what

To ask

But we can pray for friends

And strangers

Can’t we

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Sure

We can

And I hope

This day is grand for you

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The sharks swim closely to us

But they’re not

Attacking

Without meaning

Without purpose

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Let’s not give them

A reason

Today

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Live in cooperation

Maybe with nature as the

Romantics

Sought

The Victorians eschewed

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In harmony with nature

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Certainly

Let’s live out

The contracts natural

With each other

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Consider It All Joy

(x = space)

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Consider It All Joy

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Let the outside

Be awful

If it must

For princes of the world

Might have their own way

There

(not letting

princesses rise

by the way)

If only

There

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Be good on the inside

Your own realm

Where you have willed

Let in

Avowed

God to rule

While you serve God

Servant

Steward before monarch

Even when pressed

Persecuted

Outside

Sigh

Sometimes devilishly

On the inside, too

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Consider it all joy

The paradox of life and death

And resurrection

Final joy

Complete

And unrelenting

Even

In new tasks

Assignments from

A celestial magisterium

Or shall we say

The will beneath the crown

Of the Lord

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Doing what God says

Because

The glass is clear and

We can hear

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Consider it all joy when we must have trials, knowing that this testing of our faith makes endurance.  And let endurance be complete even by trials so that we are whole, lacking nothing that we really need especially inside.

James 1:2-4 (paraphrased a little)

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Entertaining Unaware

(x = space)

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Entertaining Unaware

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The Greek myth that

I like so much

About the couple who

Ends up entertaining gods

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Then while at dinner

Having both

The pitcher and the plate

Fill with wine and grapes

Respectively

All the time

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Comes to mind

When pouring out the last

Of the cream

From the carton

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Hoping there’s enough for

A cup of coffee

By an acolyte

Of morning

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Or whenever

Some plenty might be needed

Provided by maybe

A not-unknown

God

With perhaps

An agency of angels

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Baucis and Philemon

Metamorphoses

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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hebrews 13:2

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The Shape of Water Music

(x = space)

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The Shape of Water Music

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There is a shape

In text

Maybe like the way

Shape notes are sung

While

Both sets look beautiful

Upon the page

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I suppose the sound

Might matter more

Unless only looking’s possible

But all of it

(the music, too)

Are cues

Upon the page

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To signal

Let us in

Move us on

Toward more

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By the way

There is no shape here

That I know

Simply words set down

With some thought

You know

For mental pauses

So maybe in that way

I move

I music you

Along

Maybe a little

Maybe more

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C major scale, in the 7-shape shape note system of Jesse Aiken.

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