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What does this person want?

:- Doug.

Dialogue is music
tone perspective rhythm
counterpoint revelation

:- Doug.

More song
than mind stuff
we and our conversation

:- Doug.

True the singing here between
As Rilke’s sonnets to the god of song
Any impassioned set aside for air
Without an object, a soft or mighty wind
A gust within our sacral mystery

:- Doug.

A poem and I
are working
on each other

:- Doug.

A beaded curtain mystery
one the other to
and conversation is
the finger pulling back
a strand or two

:- Doug.

I am a mystery poet
I ask the poems about their mystery
as I ask you about yours

:- Doug.

Conversing allows for
turning our heads
and tasting
the world through
different feet
living where
dreams are sown

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2264

What is my thesis that has lasting value? That Life is Conversation and is of the most important sector of living activity. Within that, there are ways to do it more profoundly. Profoundly means belonging to one another and to all living.

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What have been your best kinds of conversations, the ones you want to keep going, and to invite again?

:- Doug.

Conversation
the germ
of life

to the extent
stunted
life becomes
hollow

:- Doug.

Not always must conversation be functional.

:- Doug.

Life + life

:- Doug.

Conversation lives
Not in the words
Nor in the gestures
Nor even the glances
But in the
—Exchange—
Of our pith

—And does not abide

But how is it that
In these exchanges
Each gains?

:- Doug.

Whether it be life or not, conversation is in the very thick of it. The well springing.

:- Doug.

So what are the hundred senses but means of conversation?

:- Doug.

One cannot price conversation, so many cents a pound, but only enjoy it, accept its bounty, or live in it.

:- Doug.

Conversation: cornucopia of life

:- Doug.

Real life
does not reside
in you nor in me apart
but always
between

:- Doug.

For me, why conversation? It is about fatness of life. Conversation is life filling us—two or more of us—can you understand me? In this hyper-individualistic society how can I understand me? That this is a mutual and joint thing?

:- Doug.

Do you want our conversation to produce—or rather grow? Or even live?

:- Doug.

Is this a story sequence? Story seems to be residing most clearly in Imagination, Argument, and Explanation. Arguments←Explanations←Data←Questions←Imagination←Senses

:- Doug.

Shy from fast and brief, from all-in-one.

:- Doug.