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Tragedy by Numbers
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A student killed
Two countries mourn
The suspect
Is exultant
Happy to have killed
Wounded one
More
Happy for Warhol’s
Fifteen minutes
Though we have to say
Allegedly
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Closeup of sequins on a sequin dress.
Photo by Joran Quinten on Unsplash
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Merry Whichever
(greeting)
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Merry Whichever
Happy New Year to your calendar
And all your months,
However they are named
May each day be ingested
With wisdom and
Delight,
Wisdom for the ages,
Delight in the pleasures
Of the day
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May you know love
More than in the abstract
Some good learning beforehand
Wouldn’t hurt;
Might you have peace,
If the worlds great and small
Agree
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Most of all, may
All of you
And any
Know the presence
Over us
So great,
So small as to be
Working inside
Our capillaries
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Call it God
Or the Spirit
Or the impulse of the ages
The human push
Toward improvement
And a symphony of
Maybe out-of-tune,
Asynchronous
Possibility
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May the one
Or many there
Protect you
And keep you
In each other
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Part of the painting “my take on an ion.”
Photo by Jené Stephaniuk on Unsplash
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Wrong Wright
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Destroy their bike shop
In Ohio?
Because Ohio doesn’t want to be
First in flight
Because the Wright in Wright-Patterson
And Wright State
Is enough
And what’s the big deal
About flying, anyway?
We have a shiny building
Or a parking lot to build
Because Dayton has no room to grow
In any other way
It’s not as if it’s surrounded
By flat land
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Why not move it to Yellow Springs?
Really
Really, I think they can reconstruct
And deconstruct it there
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Panel OKs bid to demolish Wright Brothers’ 1st bike shop
17 hours ago · The Dayton Board of Zoning Appeals has approved the city’s request to demolish a 129-year-old historic building that once was the site of the Wright brothers’ first bike shop.
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The wingtip of an A330 MRTT/ KC30 from the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) shot through the rear door of an A400M belonging to the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) [at the] Singapore Airshow 2020.
Photo by Bing Hui Yau on Unsplash
Changi Airport, Airport Boulevard, Singapore
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Taproot
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The brown blade sinks
And feeds the seed
That was a part
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Seeds that sleep through
Cold time
Far enough
North or south
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Something new and all the same
For being new
Will rise in spring
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The Colors of Nature Caught on a Hike
Photo by Don Raridon on Unsplash
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Impromptu
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I get started
I get tired
This is something new
Age or medications
Take your pick
But sometimes when I’m
Relatively still
My eyes want nothing more
Than to close
And sometimes I follow through,
Which is also something new
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I set aside my small machines
Stretch out with
A pillow
Here or there
Close my eyes the way
My grandfather closed
His,
Afterward
Saying
Just resting my eyes
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While watching the lions on the right and 100 meters far from us, we did not see this nice guy was sleeping 3 meters next to us in the bush on the left side of our car. But he did awake gently . . .
Photo by Andreas Berlin on Unsplash
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Wounded Eagle
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Did Ben Franklin really want
The emblem of the nation
Be the wild turkey?
Maybe so,
Though it’s hard when
One sees eagles in flight
To pick something else
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In Cincinnati
At the zoo
Was an enclosure
For a bald eagle
Wounded and then rescued,
An enormous structure
For the one
Who would only fly
Partially again,
Such was the hurt
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Netted magnificence
Still magnificent
Worthy for a nation
That’s somehow wounded, too,
And still can fly
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While living in Cincinnati, I used to visit this eagle at the zoo. I trust I remember enough and am witnessing correctly.
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For one season, I was able to photograph eagles at a nest. They were not bothered by my presence and in the morning the light was reasonably good. Sadly, that winter the tree blew down, and I have yet to find such an ideal site for eagle photography.
Photo by Richard Lee on Unsplash
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An Appointment with God
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I don’t’ have so many appointments
Lately,
For which I’m grateful
In a time of my kind of PTSD,
It’s the weight of stressors
I don’t have to bear
So much
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To get there
To show up on time
To be here when I’m called
To have everything I
Might be needing
Relieved of this
Makes for a better day
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I’d like to live easy
I don’t have much
But to have time
And on the flip side
Lack of bother
On the A side
Coffee and toast
And morning
And a day for you
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Someday will arrive
I keep forgetting
You will arrive
To take me to home
By then,
Maybe I shall be glad
Meanwhile, I keep my faith
With me and then I
Hope with
The Amish
Who say, one by one,
I hope so
When asked about assurance
Of salvation
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I think it was the poet Julia Kasdorf, as I may have said before, who told me about the typical response when Amish are asked the salvific question.
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Waves
Photo by Bernd Dittrich on Unsplash
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Dreamscape
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I had a dream in which
I had
An argument
With someone close
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I hate those dreams
Even though I get
To yell
At people; and
Somehow that might be healthy,
Therapeutic
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But the power balance
Is all wrong
Since agendas are guesswork
At best,
Especially of others
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Not to mention everything’s
A construct;
I can’t even say
Reality is
Between the extremes
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And when I wake,
I feel tired
As if I had been arguing
With someone
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Criollita
Photo by Soledad Lorieto on Unsplash
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Petition for Another Monday
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God,
To be prosaic
We need help
Our stories need more chapters
To fill in for burned-up pages
We moved too fast
Precipitous
And greedy
With a friction
That burned up
Our other efforts
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Slow us down
Give us time
To think
Push us into
The clearings of the forests
Of the world
And by the oceans
In the desert
Surrounded by the mountains
And volcanos
Titans called back in service
Prometheus released
To decide again
About the gift of fire
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I’m sure the circle
Of the Earth
Is a lesson
We take, we use,
We throw it out
To find and fund
The use of the world
Again
We use
And we renew
Breathe out poison
That the plants take,
Gift us with oxygen again
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The circle is unbroken
For all the rich who try
And those with
Bent understanding
Of the power
That never was for our us
Without repairing
Turning back
What Earth can use again
And thus to our sustaining
And creating
Over ages
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Quiet Voodoo Eye
Photo by Patrick Hendry on Unsplash
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