Winds Can Undermine

Winds can undermine –

propagate the feeling

of a fine sweet freedom

when you stand in them –

help you to envision

grander realms –

help you to imagine

you could land in them.











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Édouard

Despite your

fight inside

to be you,

Édouard

toujours

lights up

to see you!

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Grappling Unhappily

Eternity is grappling unhappily with time.

They cannot force a single thing

between them into rhyme.










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Quite True

Were you the woman

wearing rubies

in the ruby gown

who looked me

up and down

and clearly thought

I wouldn’t do?

Well, that’s quite true.

I never do.









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You Take a Walk and Have a Thought

You take a walk and have a thought

you’re sure will alter everything –

turn What Is into its opposite,

What Was into What Wasn’t.

You take it home to see

if it can do it – make it true,

and then construe it!

But it doesn’t.










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Let Us Suppose

for Donna

I confess that I not only write, I draw.

I do not know what is responsible for either,

but I’d guess that neither could take place

without some agency imparted by my paw.

And just now, talking on the phone with you,

this face is what the pencil I was holding drew.

(As usual, came through without a fuss.)

Let us suppose it has to do with us.












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How to Get Through the Rest of the Day

Listen to it. Play the game

that belongs to it. Slink

through each byway

and sink into throngs

and sit up as close

as you can to the play.

That’s how to get

through the rest

of the day.

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