Monthly Archives: July 2020

brings understanding

Imagination brings understanding. :- Doug.

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cinnamoned apple

Poetry stuffed with cinnamoned apple a slice of cheddar on the side :- Doug.

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Wings on hippopotami

Lawyer for a moment imagine wings on hippopotami :- Doug.

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My second language poetry

My second language is poetry No, my first :- Doug.

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A water we cannot see across

A water we cannot see across Of this we stand in need A brink we must visit and visit :- Doug.

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This lawyer in the fog

Often it is this lawyer in the fog first the course of study devise the special testing questions What was my role in this tragedy? Was it a tragedy? For whom? What did I fear? Why did I hold back? … Continue reading

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What good is more

What good is more time? :- Doug.

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New People

Story + Time → New People :- Doug.

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Packing a suitcase

Making memories how sweet the sound of packing a suitcase when nature is stripping you to bone and waning breath :- Doug.

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Wafting up the flue

So much grey so little silver snow and deep up on the roof but fire in the hearth? Dare we inquire after morsels? Old we have aplenty elders but few Shh who might some of us barely notice wafting up … Continue reading

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Arrow on a rusting sign

A poem once written is an unreliable arrow on a sign rusting telling which way you went but not the valuable stuff :- Doug.

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A Google lawyer

Are you Google knowing without knowing Are you a Google lawyer knowing answers and hows lively and responsive without touching All those years lived without living All those lives you have strummed without having the chords reverberate to your spine … Continue reading

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Looking glass room

As elder caring lawyers we are privileged witnesses. We also may find a profound responsibility to witness for our people. To mirror. To open. Maybe there is a different room over there on the other side of the looking glass. … Continue reading

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With the TV on

Don’t die with the TV on. :- Doug.

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death and life: choose

I set before you death and life. Choose. Choose well, for you choose for the generations. :- Doug.

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not-done-ing

Do more not-done-ing. :- Doug.

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Conscious dying

I want to be conscious in my dying. :- Doug.

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