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What you can see is more
than lifting the fog
you know more than you know

:- Doug.

Ponderful things come in through the fingers
give you freedom to write to pry open
some forgotten box

:- Doug.

What do I mean? Nay, what do you?
That will be for you to let work on you
As you wend your way to home and family and pillow

:- Doug.

It is possible to write something that
was not evident before to
reach an edge of my own meaning

:- Doug.

Not mere concreteness, but detail, oh, detail!

:- Doug.

Human what ingredient
can you add to this fry pan?
Imagine

:- Doug.

Will I do these things next time?
Hard to say
But if I did not so
Exercise my imagination
I could not

:- Doug.

She gave up on life
Giving up on life and its possibilities
Is a failure of imagination

:- Doug.

What stories have been significant for me? Rewrite this story in that house.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1971

A water we cannot see across
Of this we stand in need
A brink we must visit and visit

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Write then rewrite with physical concretizing metaphors.

:- Doug.

Exploring what uniform I wore and
What new hat I can try on next time
That is the adventure in this story

:- Doug.

Of course I’m mixing my metaphors—what better ways to savory flavors?

:- Doug.

Ask a question. Give her something to work on her.

:- Doug.

Through story, calling forth a higher humanity

:- Doug.

Not to beat upon my back
But to fan some embers

:- Doug.

What was lost or absent? What drove me to reinspect this event?

:- Doug.

What did I assume?
What did I, do I, seek to assimilate?
What is my role as lawyer, counselor, human?

:- Doug.

The cross exam is
Who are you?
Whom did you become?
Why? Why again?
Why not?

:- Doug.

The work is to prune myself and fertilize the row I tend.

:- Doug.

The evidence is in; it says I believe:
That to suggest a call to make
Gets us further down the path
Than shouting “Justice for the Dying!”
That I do not know anyone’s final best
And that I feel disappointed in myself
To not have gotten it all

:- Doug.

Maybe I have it
Wanna take the chance?
Mask up

:- Doug.

A rap across my knuckles
Yet training wheels for the next times:
What little I did in the face of
What I did not do and
The way her dying was deadened

:- Doug.