Monthly Archives: September 2020
to-bleed-for work
There is work we need to undertake—difficult to-bleed-for work—like to help along the conversation about reparations, or to help along the conversation about life after our current divisions. :- Doug.
What is the business of fog?
What is the business of fog? Of clouds? Of rocks? Of me? Of my ancestoring? :- Doug.
A way to test:
A way to test: Does it diminish us or grow us? :- Doug.
Break your past?
What if your future were a break with your past? :- Doug.
sensitivities for colors
A child’s narrow perspective an adult’s as wide as life has been in greying years do we gain broader still sensitivities for colors, fragrances, movements of possibilities in living? :- Doug.
Better than a journal
A poem has an advantage over a journal in that it is a making, a working crucible where you keep up the fire and the intensity till you have the thing almost right. Then it comes out looking like it … Continue reading
For people who may come along
For people who may come along some day, what do you think of them? What if anything do you want them to think: of your thoughts; of what you started; of this age; for thinking’s sake; for humanity’s sake? :- … Continue reading
Voyager of mystery
Your poem can be time machine Your poem a voyager of mystery :- Doug.
wide as stars shine
I want to get better with my poetry and writing, which is to say, to reach deep inside people of the generations and draw them out as wide as stars shine. :- Doug.
I release multitudes
I am circling around something akin to unfolding humanicity. I release multitudes, throngs, crowds. :- Doug.
Writing to myself
I’m writing to myself for the grandchildren :- Doug.
naked and alone
naked and alone an idea is such a weak thing :- Doug.
Rise to expectations
People rise to expectations Prime among them you :- Doug.
For people who don’t
Roads are for people who don’t want to be where they are There goes another dissatisfied customer :- Doug.