after some hours at this today
it’s darkened
I should go for another light
the close work has
made my eyesight blurry
too
and my lower back from bending over
well
not blurry
well
maybe
as pain might haze ambition
and I have said
and say
all kinds of things
in
other verses
though the moralizing’s heavy
maybe
from blurriness and pain
sigh
what should you like to hear
not
to curry
necessarily
but
to meet and interest or a need
you know that God is love or should
since the message is
ready enough
available
do you know that you are love as well
or at least have it in you
to carry outside
to
have your life better
and the world
too
so small at first
and then who knows how
wide the circles go
and you might be close to all this
as well
catch it when you see something land
on the smooth water of
a pond when
still
or other
water
maybe it’s the gospel of the small
that isn’t nearly big enough
realizing
the inevitable
the practice we don’t get away from
or
even the accountability
that
the word
the act
change things from ourselves to the world
no
matter what we’re told we matter
in this way
and so do small good
a motto
how about a bumper sticker
or what to adhere to our hearts
(I have a machine
inside
that might have
a sticker-place)
not
because the words are mine
but that they’re wise
regardless
and promise for the Earth
what should be healthy things to say
and
do
for a change
(hale
changes)
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the drive
June
first fireflies
time to see as lights above
the darkling field
something bigger with wings
that flew by the front
and we
did not collide
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depiction
how in reacting
to
the one depicted
as
what do the sightless
see
to ask
and might be told
of certain
shapes
and hints of light
maybe what is seen when
the
typical
close eyes
then ask what else
what more
if
one or more
should please to say
of what is visioned by the mind
what
and how of thought as
well as how one feels
and is there more of more
with what might be confessed
of what is heard
in
closer hearing
if then
closeness to transcendence
or
as human as any
what is
seen
unseen seen
of any
to learn from as from
any
sense-challenged
about need
as well as what
to gift
of all
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I was looking for an image to go with something else and came across this photo of a sculpture--a hint of eyes yet more so seeming blind to me--and, soundly or poorly, I kept thinking on it
in this late season
it is bright and
hot
yellow
emerald like Oz
dark branches hold up spring
fullness
blossoms’
debut
voices to whispers in the trees
dismal bouts are done for now so
that
the moon should look clear
in its expressions in
the night
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photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
stuffed clouds like stuffed bears
tut-tut
and
well
Christopher Robin knows
and a blue or green balloon selected
and a mud-caked
bear
attached to string should rise
up in the air
to
find the hive
and do
stuffed bears get stung
or is the lack an
asset
in the Hundred
Acre Wood
unstung
good for a bear and
for
a child
and
I’d think good for bees in there as well
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(named for C Robin)
photo by Jez Timms on Unsplash
sodden leaves by rain
black branches keep dimension
folded out pale sky
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the edge of Normandy back then
we like the beach
don’t we
and
for a moment
did a soldier
think if
in
a sliced half-minute
before
before getting to take a second
step
from the landing ramp
a couple thoughts
like
this is the beach
and
I think
I’d like the beach
being
from the real Omaha and
never stepping
on
warm sand before
and
should there be
a third
step
on the beach
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photo by Daria Strategy on Unsplash
on World Environment Day
on the day
World Environment Day
we may think of Earth
on our
reliance on the ground
even that which is
the solid planet
beneath
water and ice
and through and over air as well
and shall we keep it
Earth
sure
we are so used to it the firmness or
even the firmament by
Bibles
we step around the bad parts
don’t you know
the parts
that nature made
as can with
the bad parts made by us
if once
perhaps
by mistake and now
without doubt
by
will
and shall we leave our steps
reliant
the things we walk or ride on
too
the Earth whose sureness is in trouble
that splits
and lava-
magma-bleeds
and is
a hotter place than
ever
via human extractions
formulation
and how much do we believe in bunkers
really
that should protect us even
as the planet ‘round them
fails
there is no such protection and for now
nowhere else to go
except in orbit
maybe
where most of us will never go
and
can’t sustain itself for life
in body or
in spirit
meaning we give up on Earth
then
we are done
and other planets
other sentient species will
have to take
over
means for
foundation and if by
a change
benevolent inventing
and
no other
world kind
and yet
if we may style and make a world
and then a salutation
well
go
Earth
only and as
to cheer
for all
the elements that make
and keep
a world
made and kept anew
honestly and thoroughly
by us
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image by USGS at Unsplash
golden ruling
must one believe
in order to appreciate
even
to have
a sabbath
there have been laws to secure
weekends
and public mores
if eroded with
work
the busyness of virtue
and so we always have to prove we’re
at it
or are breathing only
for a moment
laws about that
too
the fullness of life
it seems
or as defined by someone we don’t know
must have hard edges
justified for
pay
and even neighborly acceptance
be seen to cut the grass or
not
to stay out late
too late
whenever that should mean
though we have work
and work is
paramount
live to work
the verse that we know
too
and yet eschew if with some longing
work to live
it’s a puzzle and a challenge and an expenditure
and could we really see and have
the thirds
of work
of sleep
of life that is neither work nor sleeping
that we get
to define
and maybe have some say
in all the rest
or is it safe to question and prioritize
shall we keep our jobs
I hope so
as in
twenty-four we get with
maybe threescore and ten and we think
it should be
longer
and it should
and so let life be good with all
the parts
with liking throughout
not
without challenges
and if
really possible
meaning worked out and on
we could let love
course through all
like
if you’ve seen
gold currents in
kintsugi
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