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half in

half in

funny
we can’t feel the day
that’s even
into
night

when on the solstice we might
notice the extremes at
least
and even say

though
we’re not likely to comment
on the day by halves
though it’s a time
when
the entire planet
moves the other way

leans the other part against the sun
with more
light and
hit

and so some seasons’ gifting
and what shall we wish
against ourselves

I mean
I like the between times and frankly
it could be autumn
all the time
for
me
and maybe such a world is an
exoplanet out there not
that it’s exo- to
itself
but the cool season’s normal

and I could
deal in that a while as
all
there was

and I might miss variety
maybe
not

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autumnal equinox 22 or 23 September

and because checking sometimes means mischief—
One of the most persistent myths about the equinox is that day and night are exactly 12 hours each. In reality, the day with exactly equal day and night — sometimes called the “equilux” — occurs a few days after the autumn equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.
https://www.universaltimedate.com/articles/autumn-equinox-2026

twelve hours and extra minutes (twelve hours minus minutes for the night) might be close enough to give the day the name it has

where I live at present, at this time of year (meaning for a while) the sun will set along Main Street right through our windshields (or back windows) at rush hour

and because I go for mischief of my own sometimes, let me say that I wish we stop using “myth” to mean a naïve untruth, when myth is a culture’s way to know the truth in bigger and mysterious things

photo by Danka & Peter on Unsplash

maybe half-spring, half-fall on my own planet

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good show

good show

there is an episode
in
which
she was in pain
and everyone did all they could to have her
feel better
until
the parent got it and talked with her
so she could say that sometimes

pain
simply and mainly
hurts

adult wisdom from the child
on either side of
which
we may own

the grieved or those who try to help the grieved
not
to leave alone but to find
easy ways
with actions and with
words
to bear
while the pain must have its way

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photo by Navy Medicine on Unsplash

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and so prepare

and so prepare

the day for the new year
was here and
happily remembered
then
and now the days between
leading to the somber day
when pardon
is
sought yet
first the day before
forgiveness from each other then on
the day
seek pardoning from God

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photo by Andrey K on Unsplash
published five days past
according to Copilot plus my own dim recollection, bluebells symbolize humility and gratitude and faithfulness (plus I really liked the photo)

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spirit-taking

spirit-taking

green and blue
like
Earth
be thankful in the day
of summer finishing

and
hmm

above it’s
seventeen syllables
maybe a classic haiku understanding

of nature as it’s nature to be
counting

more
so
taking close the wisdom
in the teaching of
seasons

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photo by Simon Harmer on Unsplash

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pack your trash

pack your trash

leave Earth better
than
you found it

when you chose shelter for the evening
here

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photo by Enfeng Tsao on Unsplash

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the letters

the letters

do I know words at all
and
you knew more but gave them up
to
go to work and have a home
not ours

and leave
the rest of words
creative
now subversive
go

and is this waiting and
don’t think so
for
the memories swept out or
locked
away

while there should
be
health in that

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photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

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right for wrong reason

right for wrong reason
the saint’s final temptation
cathedral murder

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prompt is the play Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot in which the following is given: “The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash
Canterbury Cathedral

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911 what’s our emergency

911 what’s our emergency
for 9/11

a mockery of the emergency call
I suppose
so many have apprehended
bitterly
the code

all the poor people
poor
by innocence
who could not be a proper target
on the field
where training and some rules
apply

but were defeated out of line
and protocol
by
simply wanting to have the day
while savages tried to
proclaim
no normal life for these

then
all those after who arrived
to serve
again
unmilitary but civilian
need

two piles of stories
parts
of bodies
bodies
still living and were found
and
saved from the wreckage

on both sides
rescued and rescuer
to begin the later
toil
over sickness in
survival

so in Washington the same
as they worked with each other
plus
all those arriving
to locate
and viscerally to grieve

both fright and assessment somehow
given in
the moments before
during
and after

fear
and loathing

and ask to bless the ones who fought
back
having figured the cost
but
took fewer lives
in a field in Pennsylvania

the disasters
the deaths
then
responding

we do now go our own
from such but intertwined
as
honest differences
fade some
while we
live
and work
and mourn

then to bury
and memorial
a verb

and we go on
differences lightly worn
maybe now
but
in a national identity
could be
bright as not before

though
it should not
take
such happenings
to mind a nation

regardless
so to live the catastrophic day
hurt
angry
woeful
wishing more
wishing less
but
in all agendas
yet
together

we
hope
we respond
we live

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photo by Holly Riley on Unsplash
“Tower of Voices at Flight 93 Memorial
Shanksville, United States”

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guardian

guardian

I talk with
well
her or him
or another through
the day

I feel the nudges even when I’m going
unaware

to guide
to wake up enough
with
enough
to change direction or consider
at least
another way

that might be safer
as
well as approvable

mostly
it’s the nudging
and
occasionally
well
often
with words

so it goes through the hours
in
my weakness
say
my exhaustion when
too tired to think on virtue

and then
like a feather or a talon
be
pushed gently in the miraculously
sponsored
way

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photo by Tina Hartung on Unsplash

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