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Poetry Isn’t nor Is. It Happens or Doesn’t.

— For all the maimed and dead. Happens on a FujiHappens on a GalaHappens on a HoneycrispHappens on a Granny SmithHalving the appleQuartering the appleEighth-ing the apple(Can you say that?)Knife slides across skin’Til skin gives inApple tears at the blade … Continue reading

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Song of My Selves

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Morning Fruit

When I write, I say words in my mind. I’m pretty sure I can type words as fast as I can think them. Sometimes it seems I’ve typed them even faster than that! I wash and slice an organic Ambrosia … Continue reading

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The Ballad of Forty-Six

DJ, my lord! The grail from which you suprunneth over, sir, with fulsomeness.By your leave I’ll tell it like it is:JD, as well, sips from a frothy cup. DJ, JD, a mirror’s dream times two,chosen well you have, each one … Continue reading

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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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