Category Archives: Poetry

Walking dusty side roads

More critters—just keep engendering these guesses, keep working readers, keep asking them to work me. Humans have a capacity for imagination, and this perhaps will allow us to bend the arc of humanicity, to grow, more directly: walking more often … Continue reading

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More critters more seeds

Profusion! Engender! Delight! We grow by imagination More critters more seeds :- Doug.

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Works on reader

I like a writing that works on its reader. :- Doug.

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Ancestors already

I speak with ancestors to be and the ancestors already. :- Doug.

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leave open the gate

Don’t say it all Leave open the gate :- Doug.

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Every breath

Every breath you take you’re sending a message to generations :- Doug.

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Throwaway year

Throwaway year this need not be we can learn —and better unlearn— from finally realizing our sisters and brothers as kin, as real, as us from facing death as near as breath from upheaval in our civic space —and better … Continue reading

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This busy day

This busy day squeeze out a reflection or two :- Doug.

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Maybe the ancestors…

Maybe the ancestors… …do not exist, or do not exist for us once we forget their names or their existence …only exist as children exist when we give them our eyes, give them our ears, hear them …exist or do … Continue reading

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Do I hold you back?

Grandchild, do I hold you back? How to truly free you? Does setting you free ask you to remember something of humanity? :- Doug.

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The mirror

The mirror We honor so few generations of ancestors before us that it limits our imagination of the ones coming after us how distant the echoes we hear limits how long ours are heard :- Doug.

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Elusive generations

That seems to be in the nature of an exploration, something even less defined and more ethereal, perhaps sidereal. Wander, wend, sift, circumambulate, track. Follow the evidence of elusive generations. :- Doug.

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Not only out of books

You are encouraged To read widely And not only out of books Then to write And not only :- Doug.

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Youth puts out to sea

Youth puts out to sea to make Age returns with his catch a skeleton Creation and forgetting Two parts, a singular mystery Human :- Doug.

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One per sentence

Say one thing per sentence. Here, strength. :- Doug.

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It could be worse

It could be worse Then I made this verse :- Doug.

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Message virus?

What if our message were transported in the manner of a virus, were in fact that of virus? :- Doug.

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