March 27,2006
Poems always exist behind poems
whether we realize it or not,
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"An honest tale speeds best being plainly told."
-Queen Elizabeth speaking in William Shakespeare's RICHARD III
August 25,2006
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Friday afternoon March 29,2019 at 12: 11 p.m.
It seems natural to sense
something or someone missing,
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April 29,2005
'I understand what Carolin [Emcke] meant about victims of violence and trauma experiencing solitude.'
- Svetlana Alexievich during an interview on Book tv, C-Span 2, recorded April 25,2005
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Friday night March 2,2012; revised Tuesday, May 24,2016
Art comes from everywhere, is beautiful, inspiring,
thoughit can neither sustain nor save us. It need not,
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Friday, July 15, Sunday, July 17, and Wednesday, July 20,2022
"It is very difficult to find the beginning."
--Philippe Claudel, Les Âmes grises
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early Wednesday morning, April 10, 2024 at 12: 20 a.m.
—This poem is for Maneli Nemati, who deserves this and more. She is a dissident Tabari woman living in Nazarandan Province in the north of Iran on the Caspian Sea who cares only about herself.
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Sunday morning, September 18,2022 at 12: 25 a.m.
A street light, early morning, just prior to dawn,
close by our home; then Venus and Mars shining
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Tuesday morning, May 22,2018; title to poem slightly revised on Wednesday morning, October 11, 2023 at 5: 48 a.m.
"It is only that this warmth and movement are like
The warmth and movement of a woman."
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Composed on Tuesday morning, March 13,2012 after watching Darren Aronofsky's film THE FOUNTAIN; revised Monday afternoon, July 26,2021 and Thursday morning, May 25, 2023 at 7: 28 a.m.
"A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth,
But the soul of the unfaithful feeds on violence."
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