tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40693480748053372622024-02-20T04:33:08.621-08:00The Most Useful ThingsThat Irish Gent in the Corner, Listen and He'll TalkDan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-36253837271879661302012-01-28T22:59:00.001-08:002012-02-07T07:59:43.573-08:00Estrangement 2 (Acknowledgement, Desire)<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">There is</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">an unbearable existence</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">in words</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">an incomprehensible</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">torturous, elusive</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">poem</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">in existence</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">the poem</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">of anyone</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">the existence</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">of anyone.</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-48881659937153706302012-01-28T22:56:00.001-08:002012-01-28T22:56:51.689-08:00Estrangement<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">January</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">wind, a feral motion</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">twisting in and</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">out between the days;</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">the days, suddenly</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">strange to themselves,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">estrange themselves.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">They turn</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">inward,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">long fingers curling,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">pale, digging into</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">their collars</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">and scarves,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">to seek a warmth</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">not there.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-77467349824311633072012-01-08T18:30:00.000-08:002012-01-08T18:52:16.315-08:00Miserere<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">Oh God,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">these pathless thoughts</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">and fruitless dreams encompass me;</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">be Thou the hope I cannot see.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">Oh God,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">my twisting lips</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">and hateful tongue destroy;</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">somehow, be Thou the word of joy.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">Oh God,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">my graceless steps</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">have murdered and entangled all my ways;</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">be Thou to Thine own Self the voice of praise.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">My God, my God,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">my soul stripped bare,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">I lie unveiled to Thee.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">My hope, my joy, my praise,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">my prayer: be merciful to me.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><br /></span></p>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-64594308484521257092012-01-08T18:24:00.001-08:002012-03-02T23:06:24.197-08:00Dry Oak Tree<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">dry oak tree</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> unlaminated</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> glistening</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> curls</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> a doorway of hesitant circles</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> low moan followed</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> clutching spasm</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> after slowly instantaneous</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> shattering of limb</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">her lying still</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> her turned words</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> and the darkness</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> like a sound of horses</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> growing rising bursting forth</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">descending out</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">from limbs and trunk and wind</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> a rush of wings</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> threshing of breath</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> harvest of caught eyes</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> outcry of blindness</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> fingers skittering across the stones</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> braided so deep into</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> the twist of height</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> becoming nothing</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> an arrow</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> splintering outward</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> from her break of bended bow</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> my bleeding temple</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> streaked across her spattered leaves</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> stirring against concrete</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> a new autumnal sound</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> as I go on</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> uplifting my destroyed wrist</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> and clear eyes</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-10613257312735439462012-01-08T18:17:00.000-08:002012-02-13T19:04:28.969-08:00In Twirling Arcs of Soundless Light<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">There are spirits</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">like white foxes on the lawn,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">passing through shadows and</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">becoming birds</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">who fall</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">in twirling arcs of</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">soundless light,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">to land</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">as plastic bags</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">pierced through by headlights,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">fallen angels or</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">the guardian stars</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">of wheel wells.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">Withdrawn behind the silhouettes</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">of oaks and aspens</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">the moon remains</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">a coward:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">setting--</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';">hiding--</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">waiting</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">for the light to go away.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-44209852989929298852011-12-10T22:45:00.000-08:002011-12-12T14:14:19.889-08:00Spring Drought Canoe<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">My yellow utterly incarnate tree bends to the wind,</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">trailing its leaves, like the wake of a trawler, across the glass</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">in the wall at the head of my bed.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">A sunlit dress with a pale green fringe,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">and narrow, deep-red veins,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">drifts from a hanger on a rack of clothes</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">behind your name,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">haunting the still air near my memories,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">flirting the billowed breeze </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">beside my hopes.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">My rising summer heart</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">and daybreak eyes</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">twist</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">into the fabric lines,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">fingering knots</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">against the sight of naked limbs</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">reaching out to the wind,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">answering the wind:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">a dry and ceaseless rustling--</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">the planks of a canoe scraping against</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">the riverbed stones</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">in a spring drought.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">My yellow utterly incarnate tree,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">unravelling its solemn bough,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">splashes its dress across the wall</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">and spreads a tide of dew before my dreams,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">unclothes my dreams with names,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">whets the abandoned channel of my thirsting dreams, </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">disturbs the sleep of the canoe</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">on the riverbed stones of that distant spring.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-75420672183615340922011-10-27T05:37:00.000-07:002011-10-27T05:44:34.648-07:00A Wingless Bird<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">God, I have nothing</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">to say to you. A beggar</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">shows the king his palm;</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">tumbles, a wingless bird</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">before the swaying pines,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">and waits--unmoving, breathless, mute.</span></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-64648218249772700042011-09-03T01:17:00.000-07:002011-09-23T22:09:42.847-07:00Glass Curves<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">She is receding</div><div style="text-align: left;">the memory in the dark</div><div style="text-align: left;">panels of hardwood</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">walls speckled</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">ceiling</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">altered, hung with</div><div style="text-align: left;">shadowed bulbs</div><div style="text-align: left;">broken</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">filaments</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">bouncing round the glass</div><div style="text-align: left;">curves</div><div style="text-align: left;">drifting slowly past</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">through walls</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">dwindling, receding</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">turning inward</div><div style="text-align: left;">forgetful</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-66045012213742134202011-08-18T06:15:00.000-07:002011-08-18T06:17:26.968-07:00Vivaldi Summer<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Vivaldi summer</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">
<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">horizon boils over</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">and over, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; ">replaced</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; ">
<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">endless succession</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">
<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">pure grace refilling the lamp</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">beneath the bowl</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">of clouds</span></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-63693171579310815662011-06-29T15:10:00.000-07:002011-06-29T15:12:23.015-07:00The Year Ends (Mononucleosis)<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br />And growing silently tall<br />in the deep snow, the oaks said,<br />And women?<br /><br />Quietly, I gathered the snow in my hands<br />as, silently, the ground reached up<br />to brush the tips of my fingers.<br /><br />And the oaks, astonished, lowered their leaves<br />to wreath me in a falling crown of gold.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-48360420030358320172011-06-29T15:08:00.000-07:002011-06-29T15:10:43.847-07:00In(carnation)<div style="text-align: left;"> <br /><br />Opalescent glass<br /> softly diffuses the light<br /> as it enters the bulb,<br /><br /> spreading carnations<br /> across the walls, covering<br /> the surface inside.<br /><br /><br /></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-44752028153966930622011-06-29T15:01:00.000-07:002011-10-18T07:15:34.773-07:00A Tree of Dry Leaves (An Orchard Warmth)<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br />Sinking, the pomegranate jewel dissolves<br />in an orchard warmth, extinguishing<br />among the dark roots of the good leaves<br />lining the curve of the bowl.<br /><br />I do not want it to sink and die.<br />I want to keep it long alive and watch it<br />burrow through the stones and wood,<br />the endless lines of pipes and wires,<br />until this wet globe splinters from its core,<br />a dry leaf, an old ornament,<br />a long-forgotten fragment<br />reeling in the avalanche of space!<br /><br />Drifting, the jewel settles<br />and falls along its course,<br />sinking into the rift between my hands<br />and my impenetrable hope,<br />burning until I break from the center,<br />a tree of dry leaves, an ancient ornament<br />dropped at the foot of a blank and ageless wall;<br />shattered and burned,<br />rising on the air, utterly still,<br />entirely at peace in the carrying throes<br />of the complete freedom<br />of emptiness.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-47953623563149987872011-06-06T12:00:00.000-07:002011-12-10T23:04:25.056-08:00A Piercing Luminance (A Soft Door)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It certainly seems that Lily will never bloom again,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">God will never be resurrected from my death</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and the light is gone forever.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I never saw the light die.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I saw the obscuring grief gather,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and it took to the edges first,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">slowly absorbing my center,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">which shone till the last, as if to say</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Do not forget, never despair, remember!"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I saw a naked statue today, her smooth stone body reminding,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">her promises concealed by perfect vines.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Her body spoke virtues: sacrifice, gentle forgiveness,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">an invitation and a healing love.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">God awakes in my body,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">a piercing luminance breaks through for a moment,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">a secret blossom trembles in the leaves.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Stay, my hope from God! Beloved,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">guard yourself for me: unfold, enfold, in season.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">These seasons never last, and Spring is close.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">So begins lovemaking,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">when my hope folds in the edges</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">of the world upon me,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">closing a soft door on the past.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-92014818786751394992011-06-06T11:55:00.000-07:002011-06-06T11:59:02.341-07:00Clean Edges, Tall Glass<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I appreciate tall windows with clean edges,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">as I love beautiful women in passing on the streets.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Clean edges, tall glass, what do they know?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I look through them; they never see what I see,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">unless the light glows from my side of the pane</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">and the other side shines darkness.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">But windows aren't windows</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">in that case;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">they're mirrors.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Women are mirrors, mostly.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Their bulbs burn out too quickly,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">especially when they hang down</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">from the basement ceiling</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">on a wire,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">without a lampshade.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-6167830222719613022011-06-06T11:48:00.000-07:002011-08-13T12:58:38.292-07:00Impenetrable Silence (A Low Flame)<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">
<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">It's not enough, said my simplicity,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">that you loved her and today</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">she isn't gone at all but lives at a distance;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">what reason to grieve?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">
<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">It's not enough, replied my incredulous tears, that the pieces of</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';font-size:small;">her little sounds once fit together into parted lips,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">how her lashes brushed as she would close her eyes</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">against you, wrapping the bulbs within a darkness</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">as she bade you enter that impenetrable silence </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';font-size:small;">where</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';font-size:small;">the light burned near behind a thinning shade of separation</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">that, bursting into a low flame, cast from two hearts at once</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">a single cry into the corners of the night?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">
<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">*</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">
<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Oh God, whispered</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">my shattered</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">being</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">
<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">*</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">
<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Oh God, breathed out</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">my wounded simplicity,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">don't say that again.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">
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<br /></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-39579042482418496872011-06-06T11:37:00.000-07:002011-06-06T11:48:29.998-07:00The Phoenix<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">This golden vessel weighs creakingly</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">upon the crux of the ancient wooden structure,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">soft and damp and feeble.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">This tall sepulcher glows a little from its mouth,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">this ancient wooden structure prone</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">behind its dead tree scraggle-roots and thorns.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">This golden vessel rests in the midst and shines through all,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">this little precious empty thing, long longing to be filled brim-high.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">It turns the water of the eyes to wine </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">so lovers can be drunk on loneliness;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">it widens and is large enough to bathe in,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">if you know the words to say:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Oh God.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">God has not forsaken the vessel of his making;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">that which no one values gathers dust unhindered.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">This golden vessel weighs creakingly</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">upon the crux of the ancient wooden structure;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">this heart leans heavily upon</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the dry beams of a love once new.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Make of a love a crucible,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">and the vessel will emerge from flames</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">bearing its ever-truer form and face.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Oh God, this ancient wooden structure!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Who could have imagined</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">such heat from an old flame?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">*</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">The truer form is stirring in the glowing ash:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">an indistinct, beauteous shape</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">like a bird with new, clean wings.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-87485184865044146772011-06-06T11:30:00.000-07:002011-06-06T11:37:03.419-07:00Hallelujah in the Dark (Bright Spots)<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Hallelujah in the dark, hallelujah as it sings from every flicker of every naked bulb.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Hallelujah for the 60 watts of clarity, hallelujah for the endless chiaroscuro.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Hallelujah in the highest, which my head bumps into</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">if I do not stoop too low.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Bright spots danced down from my eyes, across my fingers,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">and they wet the dry, black powder of the shadows,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the shadows that traced swinging words.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">God, write more with this torrential bursting forth,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">God, drown some uncertainties in the rippling hardwood!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">God, let the planks grow some new leaves;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">so old, so dry, do they even remember?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">God, let them twine through my nostrils,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">let them encircle my wrists and cradle my neck,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">and let them flower lotus blooms between my legs,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">naked in the dark, revealed.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Take me back to the beginning,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">give me back to me, to You, to Om;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">oh hallelujah, save our souls!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">The planks rend and the soul blossoms.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-54426498060832932382011-06-06T11:20:00.001-07:002011-10-18T07:41:25.375-07:00I Saw My Heart in a Pawn Shop<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I saw my heart in a pawn shop and bought it back.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">A bell-sound washed across the clerk, said: Free, no charge.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I cradled my repository close and wept him:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Damn you, liar! Damn you, liar!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">They moved the chairs at the cafe. There is a long table there now.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">How little it takes to slay an old thought, a memory!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Such gold would melt between cold hands.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I wonder sometimes who gets letters now,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">whether you've run out of ribbon yet</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">on someone else</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">(oh God, God, God.)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I passed your old flame in the hall</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">and shared a glance:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">you too, me too?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">We burned low.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I don't know if your letters </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">smell like you anymore.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I cannot find them.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">*</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I'm sure they do.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">*</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">The clerk said, A beautiful girl</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">who smelled like letters</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">walked into the shop </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the day before you.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">He said she looked sadly around</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">and walked out.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-5002679197298055342011-04-20T18:23:00.000-07:002011-04-20T18:29:21.116-07:00Remembrance Asleep (Echo, Echo, Echo)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">"I can't tell you the pace or direction<br />taken by the guiding traveler beneath my breast,<br />and what would you say if I could?"</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">I might have tried to follow the beat,<br />played double-time, caught up to it somehow.<br />I may have proved less wanting than I'm proven now,<br />thinking back in preference to waking up.</span></span><br /><br /></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-91638779052870377912011-04-20T18:11:00.000-07:002011-10-06T20:34:12.646-07:00We Sang Our Songs (What I Will Be When I Grow Up)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">I'm so afraid that everyone I love will die<br />and I will be left alone in a too-small box,<br />knocking on the lid with my nose<br />in a silent place with no good smells.<br /><br />I don't know why I live so timid, never intimate,<br />claiming instead to be encircled<br />by enormous tall oblong protruding pastel faces</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">of animals leering sexually and wondering</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">half to themselves, aloud,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">what I will be when I grow up.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">I know how to sing! I know how to play! I know how to write!<br />I know how to walk around without my head in some damn cloudbanks,<br />looking down the wet slope of a murdered bridge.<br /><br />Stop telling me I don't!<br /><br />I'm not from where you're from!<br />Where I came from, we sang our songs<br />because we knew them by heart, not by rote.<br />Stoppit, damn stupid condemnation evil notion, confusing the two!<br /><br />I won't listen to you. Goodbye!</span></span><br /><br /></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-51162373928227033602011-04-20T17:56:00.000-07:002011-04-20T18:09:49.574-07:00Dream of Living Color<span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">There was a slow harvest</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">that year, and slow</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">trysts, like long drops of ice,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">reminiscent of all the color,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">the variation of love.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"It's too monotonous to love,"</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">you said once, "the harvest</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">lacks Autumn color."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">If only hands ran as slow</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">as hearts--look, the ice</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">you melted, it all drops.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">I've searched for the sea built of those drops,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">I've searched for a vessel, planks of honest love,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">but fiery hearts must burn; a good harvest,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">like intentions, cannot bear to ice.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Better to die spitefully than slow;</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">better to spark high than drain color</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">at the thought of waiting, to color</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">the smooth ground with wrinkling drops</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">and watch the earth bloom slow,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">like a memory of love,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">yielding to the mind a harvest</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">when, to the eyes, there was ground and ice.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Inevitably, invariably: the ice</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">blows in to color</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">my perceptions, still my hands at harvest,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">make me watch as Time drops</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">my accusations of love</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">against my heart. Dying is slow,</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">just as waking is slow</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">when the corners of the dream ice</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">over and the tunnel closes. Love</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">must be the last color</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">seen when all else drops.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">If so, let death harvest.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">When death comes, how slow! Its harvest</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">will be edge-ice, the husk that drops</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />the spirit wakened to love, asleep to dream of living color.</span></span><br /></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-71664977547854740662011-04-20T17:34:00.001-07:002011-10-18T07:43:18.576-07:00She Clouds Wanting<div align="center"></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">She clouds wanting</span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This damn torrent</span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">No light today<br /><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">One day</span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">everything</span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">will be new<br /><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">One day</span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I will<br /><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">you<br />and you</span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />won't<br /><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Weep</span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">You</span></div><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">.</span><br /></span><br /></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-44979388818024824062011-04-01T10:11:00.001-07:002011-04-01T10:15:46.358-07:00Gods, Like Men<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-size:13px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Many, many memories have died and many futures shed their blood</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">throughout this war for the present,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">this desperate whites-of-the-eyes campaign </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: small; ">against the past</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: small; ">and all that it could lead to.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I am so tired, emblematic of my generation,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">my generation emblematic of my race;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">but I could escape.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I could know the hidden tunnel and the refugees,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I could know the touch of sunlight through the ash like clouds,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the clouds like gods displeased and looming,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the gods like those they condemn, the gods like men:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">frail hands stained with blood they do not think their own.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-45437285949468365642011-04-01T09:57:00.000-07:002011-04-01T10:07:45.842-07:00Galatians 4<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Do you remember the light from whence you shone?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Do you have any remembrance</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of that bright womb cradling you before you were?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">O God!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What did your mother whisper in her birthing groans to make you hate her so?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Will she squeeze love from you as water from a stone?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I am sorry that you wept at Moses' blows when words would suffice;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">but hate, hate mothers? Hate bruised, discolored self?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hate God that he is not obeyed?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You, Voice.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He does not see, but fear unblinded sight; not all feet are shy of Damascus.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Your hold is not so deep that a lion cannot draw you from his back by the throat.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This fire will burn, see all your ashes out upon a forge's breath!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You would have martyred impure ore, but perfect gold comes of it!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Golgatha taught you what you have not learned.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Persecution is the maidenhead of grace</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that bleeds when it is pierced.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4069348074805337262.post-45949692560944979652011-04-01T09:46:00.000-07:002011-04-01T09:56:36.142-07:00Eternal Long White Sheets<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Eternal long white sheets, cool draperies,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">forever and ever unending waves of noontide, moontide and dawn</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">fell with soft sounds, orchestral rushings, brushing silk and air and moth wings,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">secrets down from tall beds, cold, thin clouds, down from the real, warm sun,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">forever sun, where it has floated like a moon behind the veil,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">where beauty has reflected in the rippled, glassy pools of promises and time</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">for so, so long, the tide has rushed and lapped, receded and moaned against the land,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the white, white beaches, the cool, clear rocks and moss,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the pictured scenes, the opaque whispers of a time to come,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the close, the near, the almost, the shiverings, the want restrained,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the forgotten time and the hopeless hope,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the hair that lay across shoulders, the some skin, the held hands,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the leashes for the dog in the alabaster coat, the shelved jar with a rush of blood in it,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the wind that told the first, withheld the last and ran while we ran after it.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">All fell: a single infinite, impatient, instantaneous unhurried rush</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">of cloth and dress and wear.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">There all of every inch and foot and dip and swell</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">and scent and sight and breath and lips and ears and hands and arms and legs</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">and touch and glance and lithe and long stood still and waiting.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Saw the sight, beheld the touch, embraced the real,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">it all was there to be; I wept to her</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">as both our souls like stars collided and there lay,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">burning until we were the brightest, only light.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Dan H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06251433761545042694noreply@blogger.com2