Can we find no
Even in an argument, can we find we have no sides?
:- Doug.
Sides—no
us—just
earth—rounded
:- Doug.
Too seldom dancing
Some ritual is given us and we perform, such as from a book of liturgy, or by some high official. Some arises from us, such as when we kiss a child’s owie, or gather around the bed of our father newly died, scatter rose petals, wash his face, hands and feet, and sing songs from imperfect memory. The radio plays music which tells us how to feel and sometimes think—that too is a ritual, but unseen. Too seldom dancing and music wells.
:- Doug.
Becoming a poem
Today
I read a poem
I wrote a poem
What could be
better? We
two—together
becoming a poem
:- Doug.
This is fertile
Stalking the conversing
That betweening
Event happening
Now it’s gone
You have two of you
Entered a new land
An Oral culture, mostly
Once spoken, words
fly Once said, you
soar Found dazzles not
Lost together is fertile
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2384–To shape burger patties
Footprints in the Windsm # 2384
To go forth
To meet the unknown poem
With my pen tip
Is better than
To shape burger patties
Other days the other making
Is life
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Seed new worlds
See how an artist can make me—err, help me—think new thoughts? See how you in conversation can seed new worlds!
:- Doug.
Private Alps
Say, what are the private Alps no one knows you two have climbed?
And what is the vanishing point of this painting you two are making?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2383–Cadre of doctors
Footprints in the Windsm # 2383
As I grow replete in years and start to gather a cadre of doctors around me, do I seek to make them my friends? Better do I seek to befriend? Even, do I seek to converse with them, to meet?
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Work on developing
There are many things in this world of which you are unaware. Some you will not as human animal ever experience (electricity as sensed by fish), or seldom (echo location as in bats). But some you might develop. In conversation we work on some of these.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2382–Why Thoreau left the woods
Footprints in the Windsm # 2382
We have in our friends more lives to live—how can we spare any more time on this one? “I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
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Saying “I wonder”
See if you can enter more conversations saying to yourself, “I wonder. . . .”
:- Doug.
