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Persons mix and melt
before you catch them
they morph

:- Doug.

I use etymology
not to prove a point
but as seeds to imagining

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2422

We need all of the people
Colors of sounds
Sounds of foods
Foods of cultures
Cultures of Forests
Forests of deserts
Groundwaters of unexpected

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We can know
a people.
A person confounds.

:- Doug.

We cannot have
this person whole
we can hold
this moment of being
and this

:- Doug.

No, Canada will not become the fifty-first state. It’s looking like we will become the twenty-second republic of Russia.

:- Doug.

Maybe this chapter is the major.

:- Doug.

The one
who needs you
you need
and
the one
who needs you not
you need

:- Doug.

Can we accept the adventure in not knowing, in night, in thousands of flakes making one snow burying us?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2421

Conversation is more than what you say.

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We are drawing one another.

:- Doug.

We have in presence
this one’s pure person
yet not whole person
But here is our problem:
not to gain complete experience
rather to examine
the one we are receiving

:- Doug.

Put a rock clock
In your pocket
Live on geologic time

:- Doug.

Guess not
Invite revealing

:- Doug.

Conversation the land of
Multiplying chances
Tiny blooms on forest floor

:- Doug.

How can we as ancestors give
thanks to, revere, honor those who
proceed from us           into fog?

:- Doug.

A great energy moving near me
Is it from you
Or between us?

:- Doug.

Other other senses
find themselves in our
possibility for vulnerability

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2420

Hey youth!
Think from here life stretches
Out in front of you?
In age so soon
It snaps back at ya.

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Every day
I am one
Conversation nearer

:- Doug.