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If We Dance

If We Dance

(#InternationalWomensDay)

 

a circle and a cross

the symbol for Earth has the cross inside

but this is close enough

to know

the movement is planet-wide

there are things that

don’t need new reason

for dealing with the ancient one

 

there is gender

women number more

the feminine make up half at least

of who we are

one by one

and altogether

who are we without

we are not whole

we countermand creation

 

what other gaps cannot be filled

with sex, yes, and

decision

 

we are strong

and strength will out

muscle and what’s beneath

indifference energized

to charge the fight

for what should be evidential reason

 

someday a woman will preside

over the table

as a woman did, once

and long ago

inviting her will be

forgone

by then

let women rule

no let about it

women can and will

 

seek the alliance now

call it marriage

friendship

partnering or

of a presidency

in place and time

 

call it quits on

masculine oppression

give up the gate

that she has managed age

by age

the less-than-half survive

through what she does

the rest, the most

already know

 

let her in

before she keeps the rest away

celebrate the whole one

we can be

 

C L Couch

 

 

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#InternationalWomensDay

 

Petition

Petition

 

While I slept, I slept

It’s not so easy anymore

Being tired isn’t enough

I need to know something was

Done

While I was awake

Nothing monumental

Something small will do

Something small I might have done

For you

 

C L Couch

 

Present

Present

(note—yes, I saw the movie recently)

 

Nature and human come

Together for a sabbath day

A wilderness of possibilities set

Apart for eternity

The beauty in Amherst might

Say

 

(she’d say it better)

Today I might be walking—

Will you walk with me, too?

Only if the crowd—will

Not be walking with you

 

A host of dashes hers to call

She commands them

Connections between words and a

Cosmos of actions

Options that will satisfy

Her divinities

 

We try to be friends—Emily,

The Lord, and I

But there is majesty in others and

Other entities to which

We must relent,

After the final time

 

C L Couch

 

beauty in Amherst

Terence Davies on the Hugeness of a Confined Life in His Emily Dickinson Biopic, ‘A Quiet Passion’

 

 

Tomorrow Look for Litany

Tomorrow Look for Litany

 

Quiet nature

And it’s not

It’s noisy—screeching, scratching,

Tearing, flapping, crying out

In pain or loss or delight

 

It’s an uneven, all-textured

Unbalanced affair

Not all spheres are smooth in space,

Not every nest has beauty

 

There are scars and broken limbs

That bespeak mortality

But could we have it any other way

 

There is math in the nautilus

And harmony when mourning doves

Begin the day in need

Conversing with each other:

 

Come, join me

In this tree, set with me

 

C L Couch

 

Before

Before

(iambic-ly)

 

Before the day gets too

Complex,

I’d like to say that

I am grateful for your love

I’ll think it later, too

But now it’s easier in time and wisdom

To remember, all myself,

That I am yours

And after

Then

 

C L Couch

 

love image

https://markmanson.net/love

 

Hermitage

Hermitage

 

Did hermits ever live there

Saint Petersburg

Or near Nashville

I guess when the Czarina

Or Old Hickory

Wanted to live like hermits, each

Went

To their respective place

 

Places that

Are museums now

And we can’t go there by ourselves

 

We’ll not have that feeling there

Of away and art

And loneliness

As we might live

Intentionally apart

For a time

 

Maybe, then

A hermitage in practice

Somewhere in one set or another

From which we return

To what the world has in mind for us

And we, you know,

For it

 

C L Couch

 

 

hermitage tn

thehermitage.com

 

Terremoto

Terremoto

(Mexico)

 

It is the land that moves

Who pushes it

The Earth

And all of us

 

We lean into fault lines

Hurrying along

The motion

That will, by nature,

Harm us all the same

(Earth doesn’t need our help)

 

Loss of life

Among the rescued and the rescuer

Cold irony

In an otherwise heated day

 

We grieve

For our neighbors

And I trust will pray

Those who do

And those who do and don’t

Will think and plan

More actively

 

To live our prayer in action

This is mission

This is living

In a neighborhood

Of us

 

Somos Oaxaca

 

C L Couch

 

Earthquake shakes southern Mexico for second time in three days

 

Mexico

http://b3co.com/mexico/da-de-la-bandera/

 

 

The Heart-House Has Been Scoured

The Heart-House Has Been Scoured

 

Ash Wednesday

Wednesday for ashes

Woden’s day

Ragnarok

An apocalypse in folklore

 

God-belief

Has happened, we might

Say

Then gods dissolve without our

Faith, their

Angels cannot fly

Their agencies become the dust

Of skepticism, disbelief

The province of agnostics

Seeking secret

Knowledge

 

Those who believe that God

Is alive

I believe

Will take the ashes on our brows

Not because God is gone

But to make detritus

Of our seasonal

Distractions

 

The fatal kind that

Render clear sight granular

 

So we put the ashes

On the outside

Above our sight

So that clarity might be learned

Vision restored

To faith

 

A time starts now toward remembrance

To think and feel

These

And live

 

C L Couch

 

ashes

Ash Crosses and Social Networks

 

Apology for Valentine’s

Apology for Valentine’s

 

I’m sorry

I didn’t mean to say it

As I did

I wanted to say something

So in nervousness I

Spoke too fast

And said too little

 

C L Couch

 

heart mended with safety pins

http://www.wisebread.com/12-smart-uses-for-safety-pins

 

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