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when a victory is won treat it as a funeral

1 weapons areinauspicious toolsall despise them weapons areinauspicious toolsdo not use them victory isnot beautiful beautify itand you arehappy with murder when people are killedthey should be mourned when a victory is wontreat it as a funeral 2 don’t use … Continue reading

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credo

Crossing this borderwhere a sign says drivefriendly, the Texas way, I’m wondering, asI always do, which? when a warning flasheson the dash of the rental carI’m driving: ice is possible and I think this carhas been here before, glance at … Continue reading

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could be

more wait and windthan snow or ice,anticipatingdrifts for daysbefore a snowthey say could bea hundred year storm

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january 2011

1 world’s on the wayto ice tonightbut the river will not stand for it.cold as the city isin january, lightit sheds still dances on living water.snow tonight, snowtomorrow. river takes it in, flowsas every river flows to an oceanthat drinks … Continue reading

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on the river, January

an old gull makes the most of winterby walking on water as far asit will carry him frozen he believes he knows how far the ice goesand he will go no farther without flying he eyes living water the waya … Continue reading

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meditation on some fragments of empedocles

1 Listen. There are four roots of everything:bright Zeus, life-bearing Hera, Hades,Nestis, whose tears soften the mortal stream 2 Light, life, unseen,a young girl’s tears, herstory goes without saying 3 and let me tell you another thing:you will encounter nothingin … Continue reading

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mementos

After months of ice,the surfaceof this morning riverhas turnedto light in March. Redwingblackbirds on the north banksing it to life over the droneof traffic and boats risingout of hibernation. Tourists take snapshots of Spring,mementos for tomorrow, whenthe world grows cold … Continue reading

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ice people, or mary’s passion

If a woman under the influenceof ghost stories, politics, poetry,and love gave birth to two men andone went off in search of a friendwhile the other brooded deathto life then turned and ranfrom it, joined the other, ice bound; and … Continue reading

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summertime

A moment ago I wasamazed by an explosionof squill purple on snow. Nowred leaves mass underfoot, and Summertime onthe Post Office radioblows like memorythrough a fading saxophone while we joke about mailingourselves to California. The pianois ice, and you can … Continue reading

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power

As long as humans gather over pilsnerin Prague to ponder the planetary statusof distant ice under a stone Hussteps from Tycho’s bones, I will dream humanity may surviveits wars. We populate polar extremesof imagination with Sednas, Xenas,rush to defend every … Continue reading

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