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Calling All Cat Ladies

What My Cat Teaches Me Crouch.ThenPounce. InThatOrder. (c) 2024 JMN — EthicalDative. All rights reserved

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The Few, the LOUD

The elbow room in ivied halls of bard raptureHas the vastness of atomic space.Let ring lute! — Recorder, mandolin and dulcimer.Let move your lips with mine while reading silently.Let BE our noise! Be louder than it sounds! A sub-segment of … Continue reading

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It Stirs, Not-Knowing-Ness

“You need to have some sense of awe, mystery and not-knowing-ness to have faith in the possibilities of the world and what God has done.” (Abram Van Engen) IT STIRSWhat are we seeing?I don’t know, but there it is.It is … Continue reading

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Real Meat or Die!

… Determined to assert their alterity, they make sure that they’re always facing backward. (Cole Swensen, “Birds on Statues”) From Tallahassee to the seathe state of Florida shall belab-grown meat and climate free. SourcesDionne Searcey, “‘We Will Save Our Beef’: … Continue reading

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Incantation With Discreet Avowal

To all who need them: Thoughts and prayers from the legislatures.Thoughts and prayers from the donors.Thoughts and prayers from the councils.Thoughts and prayers from the courts.Thoughts and prayers from the boards.Thoughts and prayers from the embassies.Thoughts and prayers from the … Continue reading

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Ixnay on the Ocracy, Theo! LOL

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Things need to work themselves out.A round of unkinking is due.Mistakes were made. Put a few fires out. Make nice again.Fast backward to the good times.Park the ordnance. Cool your jets. The killing, the killing, give it a rest! LOLBled … Continue reading

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Don’t Mess with My Irrational Exuberance

I like its silky feel against my skin.It gets me through the days when Fury, Fearand Grief are signing autographs. Of coursea quality of underthings is theyneed airing. That’s what I came here to say. (c) 2023 JMN — EthicalDative. … Continue reading

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Notes on Process

When I indite a scrap of doggerelI launch five iambs on a fancy verb. So. Post launch, it’s a fight to go all pinche. Listen to the warm; daub raunch on the prissy; cut the crap into the shape of … Continue reading

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Choices the Chosen Cherish

I’m proud of the choice I madeto be squeezed from momma’s vaginain the Hamptons and not old Carolina. I’m proud that the daddy I chosewas several cuts above the rest,fetching me the fortune sans the quest. Proud I am of … Continue reading

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Poetry Isn’t About

I read verses that stir me,but can’t remember what they said.They don’t mean what they say,they are what they say.I read them again to be stirred;they keep not meaning, only being,leaving in my mind a memoryof being stirred by words.Grasping … Continue reading

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