tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173806544889878482024-03-05T10:17:43.319-06:00Viste-RossNathan and Louise Viste-Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12955189920541491722noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517380654488987848.post-25353687618803069062023-08-25T07:55:00.000-05:002023-08-25T19:37:53.514-05:00Nathan's blue ribbon photo at 2010 MN State Fair Fine Art Exhibition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi77xyObsYDaxvhG_CjGK-1pHHbGm8-Cs8NQk_jgXh_9ZYTXAuLFq5enIqzOVO8nMbPwa-B3UuSCM02ZAvpQ43S_-FIi9qBjdR0f1qyPVyC4vUNPeyAEGw-1M6kCLN31QbDE7t44PGj5sNs/s1600/Fair+%26+Fowl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi77xyObsYDaxvhG_CjGK-1pHHbGm8-Cs8NQk_jgXh_9ZYTXAuLFq5enIqzOVO8nMbPwa-B3UuSCM02ZAvpQ43S_-FIi9qBjdR0f1qyPVyC4vUNPeyAEGw-1M6kCLN31QbDE7t44PGj5sNs/s400/Fair+%26+Fowl.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">David Little (Curator & Head of the Dept. of Photography & New Media at the <b>Minneapolis Institute of Arts</b>), the Juror of Photography at the 2010 MN State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition awarded Nathan the blue ribbon for his picture, <b><i>Fair & Fowl</i></b>, of Louise & a brown leghorn rooster.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mary Abbe (Fine Arts Reviewer at the Minneapolis Star Tribune) wrote </span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">"...The show opens with "Fair and Fowl," a prize-winning photo by Nathan Viste-Ross of Minneapolis, who captured a straw-hatted woman gazing dolefully at an amazing rooster. A truly magnificent creature, the caged bird appears to be at least 3 feet tall with sharp eyes, a flaming comb and wattles, golden feet and glorious russet wings tinged with blue and black. By chance the woman's blue shift and long reddish hair are the same hue as the bird's plumage, enhancing the sympathetic aura that seems to surround them...." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks David. Thanks Mary.</span>Nathan and Louise Viste-Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12955189920541491722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517380654488987848.post-25900371555178202632023-08-24T22:30:00.002-05:002023-08-25T22:33:43.566-05:002012 MN State Fair Visitors viewing Nathan's "Fossils in the Snow"<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJGyCwVTgSE3Zx3Hzl2xHkTdF02XH2j9jj5Fg2tZB0azd0idLI4WLTOBRK0coTt4T4A3b2rZW9_50goTZzrYOsYj1GOZp6SZZVNpxoBPuhQJiexPtpwWyasYgYbz6ICNdb9wL4ZTBTWujrFs-muMhmay7jFdv1OyYejE3cgIMg4KSV5Qi6VX4Yso0ebZ5/s1600/%202012%20People%20Viewing%20Fossils%20in%20the%20Snow%20merged.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="3150" data-original-width="5600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJGyCwVTgSE3Zx3Hzl2xHkTdF02XH2j9jj5Fg2tZB0azd0idLI4WLTOBRK0coTt4T4A3b2rZW9_50goTZzrYOsYj1GOZp6SZZVNpxoBPuhQJiexPtpwWyasYgYbz6ICNdb9wL4ZTBTWujrFs-muMhmay7jFdv1OyYejE3cgIMg4KSV5Qi6VX4Yso0ebZ5/s1600/%202012%20People%20Viewing%20Fossils%20in%20the%20Snow%20merged.jpg"/></a></div>Nathan and Louise Viste-Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12955189920541491722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517380654488987848.post-12790815919712384192023-08-24T19:40:00.003-05:002023-08-25T19:47:10.732-05:00Nathan's 2022 MN State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition Photo<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhePelvxW4GPoTLVct38_xMtoA9wItt4xbr7-kMTILn7-jR_jaM-nar4G6O440LHCcZ88GXLPggANi0f97jaYulnleueXuA7IeQ0Qf2QgE1X6dTeEDBCy_FgRYlBE00qN6EDEFcP76fGTWnHOVHp8xZEgpsL_mONABZcBxO4zC2WEnnTLf26bIrsiaZYl1r/s1600/2022%20MN%20State%20Fair.%20Sullivan%20Bank%20Lobby.%20Owatonna,.MN.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2057" data-original-width="2400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhePelvxW4GPoTLVct38_xMtoA9wItt4xbr7-kMTILn7-jR_jaM-nar4G6O440LHCcZ88GXLPggANi0f97jaYulnleueXuA7IeQ0Qf2QgE1X6dTeEDBCy_FgRYlBE00qN6EDEFcP76fGTWnHOVHp8xZEgpsL_mONABZcBxO4zC2WEnnTLf26bIrsiaZYl1r/s1600/2022%20MN%20State%20Fair.%20Sullivan%20Bank%20Lobby.%20Owatonna,.MN.jpg"/></a></div>Nathan and Louise Viste-Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12955189920541491722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517380654488987848.post-40366738353216462572019-09-18T17:23:00.002-05:002019-09-18T17:29:42.105-05:00<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nathan's piece in the 2019 MN State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">30.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">This
can opener doesn't work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I've
tried adjusting the antenna every which way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I've
tried taping the threads with Teflon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I've
tried augmenting the maple pegs with stainless steel screws & mahogany
caps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I
even added an additional tablespoon of cream of tartar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Still,
its only output is silence & a field of blue;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">The
damn thing simply won't turn over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I
took it to two jewelers, a hardware store & a Batteries Plus franchise;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">None
of them could even get the back off</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">(let
alone being able to tell me how deep to dig the hole, or how often to water
it.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I
guess I'll have to resort to the tried-and-true:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">A
plunger, then a snake, then anhydrous sulfuric acid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I
just have to remember be careful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">This
is three-phase I'm dealing with here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">If
I pound too hard, I could get a 480 volt handshake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Oh
well. I have to hurry & get it fixed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I
need it to barbeque the sushi for dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Some
friends are coming over to discuss<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Darwin's Black Box</span></i><sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">1</span></sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;"> and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Genesis</i>.<sup>2</sup></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;">1</span></sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;"> Behe 1996</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;">2</span></sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;"> God -4004 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">31.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">The
black hole on the other side of the door–</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">A
hole through a ten-by-ten-inch, wire-reinforced window-pane–</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">A
pane meant to keep someone from slamming into someone on the other side </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">when
it's unlocked; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">but
to keep someone on the other side
when it's locked–</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">And
let me be metaphorically clear, right off:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">This
black hole isn't Death (or Birth);</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">it's
not the Unknown (or Regret)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">it's
not Loss (or Gain) or Failure (or Success);</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">this
hole isn't Pain or Fear or Want or Ignorance </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">or
the Future or the Past.–</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">The
black hole on the other side of the door</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">–It's
night; the office lights are mostly off;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">the
concrete slabs are cavernous & cool.–</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">The
black hole on the other side of the door</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">–As
we disassemble and move the last of the files & equipment,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">as
we move all this old stuff to a new place–</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">This
black hole on the other side of this door</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">is
silence within a great array of noise;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">is
a satisfying, specular void.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">32.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I
have thoughts; you have thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Let
's call them god;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">We
can share these god-ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Three
things: the earth, the air, the sea;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">These
things are god;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">We're
made of god, god 's what are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">All
living creatures reproduce themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Creation
's god;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">The
god-process allows that all live things endure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I
can think upon notions I've never had & can't explain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">God
will be these notions;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">They
pass between us that we can know god.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I
will die & yet I know things still will be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">God
is continuation;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">What
I know can be known hence.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Much
has happened long before my birth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">God
is the sum of all that 's been;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">God
is that I am of our past.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I
become uncomfortable –I guess I'm scared–</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">When
I apprehend that I will cease;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">The
moments when I can ignore my end is god.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I
suppose there 's a cognate for god in every human language.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">That
we're able to compare between us is god;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">We
can discuss god & other things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">All sane persons want to reach outside themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">God is communion;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">We know god as us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">God is our image.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">God is our hope;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">God is our reason for waking up each day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Not a guy, nor a spirit, nor any thing (nor no
thing),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">God is an opinion, a desire;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">It is as real as if it really were.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">34. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">International Peace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I finished bagging my groceries </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">& was pushing my cart out to my little 4x4.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">four-by-four</i>? No, I don't think it's
testosterone poisoning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I spent my youth & formative years</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">pushing cars out of the snow;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I'm too old for that now.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">A young Somali couple walked by me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Her, two paces behind him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">She was telling him something.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">She repeated the same thing at least twice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I have absolutely no idea what she was saying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">–I'm embarrassingly monolingual–</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">except that, from the expression on his face:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">He'd heard it before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">He knew she was right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">& he knew he'd hear it again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">There ARE some things that practically transcend
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">The world would be more peaceful</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">38.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">A Compact</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">When listening, with Richard Leppert<sup>1</sup>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I knew everything I knew was only a moment;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I knew nothing I knew would ever surpass</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Understanding that someone<sup>5</sup> else<sup>6</sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Heard what I heard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">We can only be alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">It's good we can imagine it otherwise. </span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;">a scholar</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;">4 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;">a song</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;">5 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;">anyone I consider</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;">6</span></sup><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;"> everything other than me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">39.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Little machines smaller than a pocket calculator</span></div>
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or a Zippo lighter</span></div>
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or an ink well</span></div>
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or a mango
pit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">
or a baby's foot–</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">People plug these devices</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">into the earholes in their head</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">to listen to absent people</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">& ignore present people</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">by filling their mind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">with talk or play or song.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Consider a vast room –say a warehouse floor–</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">where the din & drudge of the task at hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">can be filtered out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">by people, by plugging themselves </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">into separate little machines</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">together. Together they are </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">mostly unaware of place, of each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I bought an MP3 <sub> </sub>player today;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I wanted to be a part of my community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">41.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Though feral cats have taken food from a plastic
spoon I held</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">And though imperious toms have only growled a
little when I petted them as they ate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">And though mostly-wild queens have come to our back
door when they're pregnant & hungry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">And though everyone in a couple of extended
families of outside cats nuzzles & purrs </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">At Louise when she's feeding them –but won't let me
near them when I'm not;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I still never really accepted that they only liked
us –initially at least–</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Because we gave them food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Until I noticed my friends at work & me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Eating free pizza at a company party</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">As we bunched about the pizza boxes until they were
empty </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">And laughed & grinned & told stories</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">And wiped & licked the tomato sauce from our lips
& chins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">42.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;"> Sentence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">As we walked down the
hallway with but one bare, unlit incandescent lightbulb hanging on two zinc
wires with only remnants of cracked, brown-black insulation, in the center of
the ceiling with palm sized, thick, rubbery flakes of oil-based, lead-filled
paint attached by cob webs & sticky dust to the yellow-gray, raw plaster
beneath, with almost no noise from outside the collapsing corridor except an
occasional rusty honk or collision, some swearing, a bit of sporadic gunfire,
then silence, time collapsed away from us like the out-leaning walls that
surrounded, with a tentative, nervous hesitation and almost longing, until each
of our steps anticipated a finish, a completion, a resolution, yet harkened
recursively to the step before, and that to the step before that, until all our
walking became a wanting and until all our wanting became a needing, and until
all our needing became a beginning that ended in nonsense and violence and easy
confusion, until all we had left was each other or at least what we thought was
each other, for in the near-darkness of that uneasy passageway, the first of us
saw little and anticipated much, and the last of us saw only a back before them,
and remembered what they could, and only those in the middle were seen and
could see, or so they thought, because they could only assume someone behind
them saw them and knew they saw them, though there were our relentless steps
inside the silence, so we could all infer, or we could each infer while assuming
all the others inferred also, that we weren't alone, that we were making
progress down the hallway together and that, at some point in some time in some place that lay
before us we'd step out of this conduit to an ending and emerge somewhere into
some place in a moment that was the beginning of a less worn & confusing
& just less old –and maybe safer, but perhaps much less safe also– surrounding that could give us some
hope, or even just some need to continue wondering as we walked down the
hallway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">50.
When you're made unemployed</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">watched
pots do boil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">hand-rehemmed
pants are satisfying; so are new ones. Making things and buying things fill the
days (but you feel empty.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">you
complete stuff you've been putting off for years (but you feel incomplete.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">it's
easier to work yourself into feeling good than to work yourself into feeling
bad (but it's easier to think yourself into feeling bad than to think yourself
into feeling good.)</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">you
understand you were curt & rude after you've been curt & rude (but at
the time you seemed reasonable —to you.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">some
things can be irritating: people you live with, neighbors, children, politicians
& actors, drivers, bicyclists, pedestrians, clerks & customers, people
you don't live with, computers & telephones, anything digital, anything
mechanical, pets, weeds, rocks, dirt....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">no
matter how hard you genuinely recognize some things will inevitably become,
when they do, you'll think and feel (in startled shock and disorientation) "Shit,
this is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hard</i></b>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Understanding
this doesn't help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">forgiveness
might help, but so might revenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">you'll
likely get through it. 'til then, focus helps; but so does food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">careful,
or you'll get broke</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">and</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;"> fat.</span></div>Nathan and Louise Viste-Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12955189920541491722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517380654488987848.post-47367117228379455042012-07-11T11:45:00.002-05:002012-07-11T11:48:51.865-05:00Present Narratives 48.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> 48.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">My
mother</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">knit
me a sweater</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">with
big wooden buttons</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">about
45 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Finally
–too ragged to wear– I cut the
buttons off</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">and
kept them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">I
bunched up the sweater</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">and
stuffed it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">inside
a cardboard box</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">so
some cats could stay warm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">in
the winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">I'm
amazed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">at
how carefully they arrange it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">with
one sleeve</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">poking
out of the hole</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">that
serves as the entrance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">to
the box.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">I
pushed it back in a couple of times;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">they
always pulled it back out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Just
one sleeve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Several
litters of kittens</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Have
been born on that sweater.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">My
mother would have approved.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">She
liked cats.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The
sweater is pretty encrusted & fragrant now.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">I'll
probably toss it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">and
replace it with a clean towel or something.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">But
not yet.</span></div>
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<br />Nathan and Louise Viste-Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12955189920541491722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517380654488987848.post-54560552797213786502012-01-03T13:02:00.003-06:002012-04-03T22:33:13.327-05:00Graffiti PoliceThe City Of Minneapolis <i>CLEAN CITY COORDINATOR</i><b><i> </i></b>sent us a <i>GRAFFITI ENFORCEMENT LETTER</i> demanding we paint our garage door within a week. <i> </i><br />
<i>Paint <b>Outside</b></i> in <b><i>Minnesota</i></b> in <b><i>December</i></b>!?<br />
Besides, we liked the tag.<br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> life study #2</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: x-small;">oil on canvas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 38" x 58 " </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">from <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>PRESENT NARRATIVES </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">#2 <br />
What 's this? A 5 x 7 of Michael taped <br />
To the plate glass between a 5 foot banner promising <br />
Bombay Sapphire gin for $18.99 <br />
and bunting hawking Leine's (Leinenkugel) beer below five bucks? <br />
Cashier-of-the-month, perhaps? <br />
Good. <br />
Although our conversations have been telegraphic <br />
–long enough for him to ring a couple bottles of wine, <br />
or gin & fino, maybe scotch, beer occasionally– <br />
His quiet demeanor –presence– makes me feel welcome here. <br />
He's asked me how I liked what I was buying <br />
–his manner showed he wasn't selling; he was curious. <br />
Once, I asked him what he drank. <br />
I think he mentioned something clear: gin, vodka or the like. <br />
The writing above the picture says: "In Memoriam?!" <br />
There's a newspaper clipping below his photo. <br />
It records the death date, names survivors, says they're sad he's dead. <br />
"What happened to Michael?" <br />
"He choked to death." <br />
"That 's it?" <br />
"It was a freak accident." <br />
"How old was he?" <br />
"Forty-one." <br />
"Damn." <br />
"Yeah. I know. That'll be eighty-seven fifty-six. <br />
I'll get you a box." <br />
"No box, please. Just a bag." <br />
"Have a good night." <br />
"You too." <br />
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#5 <br />
"The house was 24 feet by 18 feet on the outside <br />
with 2 rooms upstairs & 2 down; <br />
The studs were rough-milled oak. <br />
A curtain on a wooden dowel separated your grandparents bedroom <br />
from the other downstairs room. <br />
We slept –seven of us over the years– upstairs. <br />
It was already framed-in when Mom & Dad bought it; <br />
Later, they attached a lean-to as an entryway, <br />
and a trailer onto the southeast corner, as a kitchen. <br />
Each year, in the fall, we'd bring in an upright-wood burner <br />
to heat the whole place <br />
(but not very damn much if you were upstairs & it was 20 below.) <br />
I remember when Dad drove the well <br />
–I was only 5 or 6, so I couldn't help, but <br />
I watched (and talked constantly, I suppose) <br />
as he pounded the point down, day after day. <br />
He hit hardpan and the pipe hardly seemed to move for hours. <br />
It was a lucky effort, though; <br />
He tapped into a subterranean lake. <br />
During the 30's drought, we watered everyone's stock <br />
from a dug well in the same aquifer. <br />
D'you remember the windmill? <br />
It was still up when you were growing up. <br />
Your Uncle Jim finally replaced it with an electric pump. <br />
Climbing 30 feet to grease the axle of a windmill <br />
Is a pastoral & picturesque pain-in-the-ass, isn't it Jim?" <br />
"Yeah, but, you know, looking out the window now, <br />
I'm kind of sorry we had to take down the old windmill. <br />
It's like when we finally tore down the old house: <br />
The neighbors brought their tractors, came to help. <br />
There must have been three-, three-hundred-fifty horsepower there that day. <br />
We wrapped the house with chains and tried to pull it down. <br />
The chains broke. <br />
With saws, we cut the house in half <br />
and dragged it to the field to burn. <br />
I guess I should have moved it to the woods <br />
so the grandkids could see it <br />
–it would have made quite a playhouse. <br />
But a guy didn't think of those things then. <br />
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#6 <br />
on Michael Pollan's <br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Omnivore's Dilemma</span> <br />
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The grasses feed the cattle. <br />
Cow manure feeds the maggots. <br />
The maggots feed the chickens. <br />
Cow dung & chicken shit feed soil. <br />
The soil feeds the grasses. <br />
We thrive within the circle; <br />
Birth & death entwined. <br />
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Oil feeds corn. <br />
Corn feeds cattle & chickens & us. <br />
The circle is broken. <br />
There is only death. <br />
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#8 <br />
Those three squirrels <br />
systematically harvesting a mulberry tree, <br />
checkered with black & red berries, <br />
patient, intent, relentless, <br />
yet always jumpy –cats need food, too– <br />
remind me: I need to buy some new socks. <br />
I wonder if squirrels get weary sometimes, too? <br />
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#10 <br />
The wind scared my mother. <br />
She grew up along the eastern coast of the United States. <br />
Her stories about the 1936 & 1945 hurricanes were relaxed but, <br />
When it was storming <br />
she always tried so hard to be in another room <br />
–or at least to comfort & reassure us <br />
if we needed her to be there in that moment. <br />
She didn't want to pass on her fear <br />
of the air. <br />
It didn't work. <br />
So now, I'm above average scared of the weather <br />
but below average scared of women. <br />
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#11 <br />
I’m going to John Mitchell’s funeral Friday. <br />
John Mitchell was a poet. <br />
Poets like funerals. <br />
They like the spectacle & array of origin, boundary & denouement; <br />
They like the way death lights upon a moment & makes it real. <br />
I feel like a bit of an opportunist –a ghoul– <br />
inspired by his death to write a poem. <br />
But then, all poems exploit death. <br />
Death gives poems vigor & purpose. <br />
So, as long as proper gratitude is expressed, <br />
I guess it’s o.k. <br />
Thank-you John. <br />
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#12 <br />
My initial wife grew up on a farm <br />
A few miles from Rochester, Minnesota; <br />
A place with 10-foot snowdrifts & 30-foot topsoil; <br />
The growing season there yields prolific, though conflicted, crops. <br />
So I, an urban fool, made her a seed-starting bed: <br />
2 x 4's, insulation board, & a heater cable from a catalog <br />
(She always made time for gardening, even as she attended medical school.) <br />
Well, that match didn't work out well (or perhaps it did.) <br />
In any case, we parted & she left the seed-starter. <br />
My final wife is urbane. <br />
She appreciates horticulture; <br />
But devotes all her time to playing Bach, singing Scarlatti, <br />
And brushing her visions across a canvas. <br />
In 20 years, she's never used the seed-starting bed. <br />
So I finally decided to take it <br />
--And a couple thousand pounds of project refuse from our basement & garage-- <br />
To the landfill. <br />
It seemed a pity to toss this thing I'd made, unused; <br />
So I decided to call Robin & Beth: <br />
Robin, who makes furniture that 's elegant & pristine & perfect, <br />
Even though he spends what any reasonable person would consider <br />
All his time passionately teaching --inspiring-- college students; <br />
Beth, who embraces the Earth on her farm, <br />
Even though she spends full days preparing high school students <br />
To face the likes of Robin. <br />
They both have full-time lives teaching nascent people <br />
How to think & behave; <br />
But with an energy that seems exhausting to me, <br />
They touch the Earth directly <br />
Helping ewes yean & vegetables grow <br />
On a little farmstead near Vasa, Minnesota; <br />
Where the land isn't quite as fecund as in Rochester, but it's still good. <br />
That longing for Earth's touch is mostly Beth's; <br />
But Robin's longing for Beth makes the extra work mostly o.k., I guess; <br />
But that's another poem entirely. <br />
So I called Robin & Beth <br />
To see if they'd like a seed-starting bed. <br />
(My god, the heirloom tomatoes they give us each summer are almost erotic.) <br />
I thought they might have some use for my simple incubator. <br />
"It's made of 2 x 4's & insulation board." <br />
"Oh." (His 'oh' was inflected by a deep familiarity with me. <br />
I like to make rude structures from dimension lumber & industrial hardware; <br />
He crafts exquisite lampshades from mahogany, stained glass, & copper foil.) <br />
"Here, talk to Beth." <br />
Beth told me how a seed-starter heats the bed to 60 degrees; <br />
And how they keep their basement well above that <br />
To accommodate Robin's fingers when he's crafting wood. <br />
Beth told me --with Southern manners & Cosalish sensibilities <br />
(She grew up in the Carolinas and grew some more on Vancouver Island as an adult.) <br />
She told me --after thanking me for my gesture, for my offering, for my consideration-- <br />
She told me "No." <br />
(I think I heard a breath of relief in the background.) <br />
I've kept this thing I've made --unused-- for almost 30 years. <br />
It's always seemed --perversely, I suppose-- <br />
Like I should save things I've made, <br />
However useless they are. <br />
Well, finally, I've thrown it out. <br />
Though I did remove the store-bought heating cable first. <br />
I thought I could make something with it eventually. <br />
I hate to throw out a perfectly good heating cable. <br />
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#13 <br />
carrots…. <br />
pickles… <br />
chicken breasts… <br />
Stilton & Cheddar & Havarti & Leerdammer &… <br />
oh yeah, Feta… <br />
red cabbage & romaine & apples… <br />
uh… salami… and there was one other thing… <br />
what was it? <br />
a- b- c- d- e- f- g- … <br />
G. <br />
garlic. that’s right. <br />
I wonder why I seem better able to remember things alphabetically? <br />
are recollections keyed like a database? <br />
I doubt it. <br />
I think we make computers analogous to us; but not like us. <br />
each breath compares to the wind; <br />
but pressure from a muscle diaphragm <br />
is nothing like the pressure from the sun. <br />
we’re of the Earth; but we're not like the Earth. <br />
memory might be the center of all this. <br />
perhaps it is the only thing there ever is. <br />
every 'thing' else really is a motion: <br />
activity & relationship. <br />
remembering love is about loving; <br />
but it isn't love. <br />
allusive recollections <br />
–what's connected to what– <br />
–who did what when– <br />
–and always, of course, why– <br />
can be satisfying, satiating, terrifying, entertaining, <br />
or just something to do; <br />
but a gesture <br />
and then a response <br />
is a creation beyond anything I can possibly remember. <br />
a reason to live. <br />
living is mostly remembering. <br />
now, what was the other thing <br />
we wanted to eat for dinner tonight? <br />
oh, that's right. <br />
sushi. <br />
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#15 <br />
What things are there that I share with everyone? <br />
We all know blood, warm flesh & faces; longing, fear <br />
(for none would live too long if they were satisfied; <br />
we need a present hunger, always there.) <br />
But what –beyond urge– can be recognized? <br />
I think I know a kind of place where you've been, too: <br />
<br />
In my grandmother's upstairs hallway, <br />
The door <br />
leading from one bedroom <br />
(the one with twin beds painted with turquoise enamel) <br />
to one of its porches <br />
is open. <br />
It smells like the tide is out <br />
(unsubmerged clam holes vent growth & decay.) <br />
The music box downstairs <br />
with pinned, brass reels bigger than my forearm <br />
is playing a bit of a Chopin waltz <br />
over & again <br />
but is always missing the same, few notes <br />
where the salt air has green-rusted away some of the pins. <br />
There's a scattering of sand on the hardwood floors <br />
along the edge of the runner running the length of the hallway. <br />
From where I stand, I can see the outside spigot <br />
for washing off our feet after a swim; <br />
But my brother & sister & especially me (because I'm the youngest) <br />
often forget to rinse off our feet <br />
before tromping through the house to change clothes in our bedrooms upstairs. <br />
The sand scrapes between my toes; <br />
the air tastes moist & salty. <br />
No fabric in the house <br />
–towels, bedsheets, curtains, rugs– <br />
is ever quite dry in the summer. <br />
<br />
Every time I smell mildew <br />
I return to that eidetic place –shared place– for a moment. <br />
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#19 <br />
"This damn light is always red for…" <br />
{oh fuck! no! no! turn! no!} <br />
"AGCH!" <br />
{it is like slow motion... he's lilting over the handlebars... oof, that bounce off the hood hurt like hell... I wonder if he'll die? shit... over the roof... and she's sliding under the wheels... no? good. she missed.} <br />
"my god." <br />
{light 's green. should I pull over? i don't want to –i know it's not my blood or my pain but blehishugheewblah!– but should i? i don't have a cell; i suppose i could...wait...five cars have already pulled over... three people are calling for help... i'd just be in the way... good –or not, i guess. today, i'd rather be lucky than good} <br />
"Oh good. I'll be on time." <br />
{as if that mattered a shit.} <br />
<br />
"Could I have the first slide, please?" <br />
{let's see, it's four o'clock. if I can finish by five, with 20 or 30 minutes of questions –as long as there are no assholes in the crowd…} <br />
"The first slide, please?" <br />
{...i should be able to get out of here by quarter of six…} <br />
"What? Deleted? o.k." <br />
"Forgive me. I'll just hook-up my Mac. It won't take a second." <br />
{which is going to seen like three hours to me and everyone in the audience.} <br />
{the concert is at eight. it's fifteen minutes from here –i can make it in ten.} <br />
{stupid assholes. they knew which slides I needed yesterday.} <br />
"The handout you received at the door… <br />
{oh please don't be temperamental & make me look like a fumbling jackass} <br />
"...outlines the essential point's I'll cover today..." <br />
{ 'outlines the essential point's' ?! as opposed to what, idiot? 'meanders about the trivial gossip i'll spew forth'? just shut up & connect the machines.} <br />
{oh no. rustling papers. they're bored already. god, i hate machines. no, no you don't. you love them. shut up. focus. where 's the damn plug? ah here.} <br />
"There. Good. Today, I'd like to talk about time. But not the time of Einstein or Planck or Heisenberg, but the time of Wallace Stevens and, in spite of what some –Stu Hameroff, a few others– would like to believe, they're not the same, they'll never be the same, they can't be the same." <br />
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#20 <br />
My white, feral kitten-cat with a black mask <br />
–Pagliacci, Bozo, Peter Criss– <br />
comes closer when I call-out "Bandit!" <br />
Smart cat. <br />
She knows I've brought food. <br />
It's a good reason to like someone. <br />
Ah, but today, her first sight of a scarlet cardinal <br />
has distracted her. She ignores me & calmly rivets <br />
her gaze upon him: fascinated, dangerous, splendid. <br />
<br />
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#21 <br />
"I am dead." <br />
English verbs can't really ever get it quite right. <br />
I might be overweight –or skinny; <br />
I might be brilliant –or stupid; <br />
I might be writing or walking or eating or dreaming or fucking or just thinking; <br />
I certainly am alive; <br />
But in spite of the evolutionary directive/imperative <br />
to consciously & unconsciously, <br />
to completely & obsessively, <br />
to primally & primarily <br />
avoid death <br />
as if it were a thing or a place, <br />
I can't. <br />
And when I don't <br />
–as, of course, we all won't– <br />
I won't be dead. <br />
I just won't be. <br />
Un-be? Dis-be? <br />
I don't know what the emotional solution might be. <br />
Maybe ignorance. <br />
Maybe lies. <br />
Any solution –thanks to evolution– will always be a little uncomfortable <br />
for the living (As opposed to whom? <br />
There's the language problem again.) <br />
Perhaps the only linguistic solution is a poem within a poem: <br />
<br />
I like to sit in a lawn chair <br />
Watching the feral cats in my back yard <br />
As they like to sit –even in the snow, sometimes– and watch me <br />
Until some outside thing ends the moment <br />
And one of us leaves. <br />
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#22 <br />
At Mealtime <br />
<br />
"I’m worried about Hillary." <br />
"She’ll be alright, Mommy." <br />
"Were you going to eat all that tunafish, Bandit?" <br />
"You've got a pile in front of you Cassius." <br />
"She's six months old now..." <br />
"What's that?!" <br />
"What?!" <br />
"What?!" <br />
"What?!" <br />
"oh, I guess it's nothing. Just one of them emptying their trash." <br />
"...munch, munch, munch..." <br />
"...munch, munch, munch..." <br />
"...munch, munch, munch..." <br />
"...munch, munch, munch..." <br />
"...as I was saying, she's six months old now..." <br />
" Did you want all that Salmon Feast, Pretty?" <br />
"No, I suppose not. Go ahead." <br />
"Leave her alone, Cassius. You haven't even finished the Seafood Supper in front of you." <br />
"It's o.k. Mommy. I'll eat when he's done." <br />
"Good kitties." <br />
"Why does he keep saying that?" <br />
"I don't know. They're not very bright. Why would he keep observing 'kitty, kitty, kitty' each time he sees us? Like it's a new discovery each time." <br />
"It's true. But he does bring food. So why are you worried about Hillary?" <br />
"It's Tommy." <br />
"Oh. Well, yeah. He tried to hump me yesterday. His left ear will match his right one if he tries that again too soon." <br />
"But Hillary is so little; so delicate." <br />
"She's tougher than you think, Mommy." <br />
"(Sniff, sniff) Why does he keep bringing us fish. I don't like fish. I like turkey." <br />
"You should just be glad he brings us food." <br />
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#23 <br />
At a Mailing House: <br />
<br />
"What's this? A thousand letters of apology for sending out premature late notices?" <br />
"Yeah..." <br />
"But from a collection agency?!" <br />
"Oh...I guess those must be good bad-debtors..." <br />
"...As opposed to bad bad-debtors?" <br />
"Kind of like someone who beats their children, but says they're sorry afterwards." <br />
"Like my father." <br />
" ." <br />
" ." <br />
"Sorry, I forgot." <br />
"It's o.k. I'm used to it." <br />
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#24 <br />
That reflection <br />
of a bridge in still water <br />
is also a bridge <br />
made from the same trusses & deck <br />
I can only imagine. <br />
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#25 <br />
As she deftly flicked the bits of shell and membrane <br />
onto the crinkled sheet of foil she'd neatly flattened <br />
after eating the tuna salad sandwich it held, <br />
she glanced up at the clock –four minutes left– <br />
and decided to save the hard boiled egg <br />
for her last break. <br />
Though it pleased her not at all, <br />
she'd grown used to the inane blare of All My Children's <br />
mysterious strangers, miraculous cures & evil avatars. <br />
It made it harder to chat, but <br />
she now preferred the aggressive silence the television enforced <br />
before she had to return to man the folder for a few more hours. <br />
She'd heard, at full speed, it generated 90 decibels or more. <br />
She was used to that too, now. <br />
Besides, what was there to talk about? <br />
The weather, <br />
the (new, old, lacking, promised, eliminated) employee incentive plan, <br />
kids & pets, <br />
foot-base-basketball scores, <br />
"Glad it's Friday." "Yeah." <br />
"It's Monday." "Yeah." <br />
As she deftly burst & jogged the reams of paper, fed the folder, <br />
then packed the tri-fold leaflets in cross-stacked, twenty-five page lifts, <br />
she glanced up at the clock –two hours left– <br />
and decided to save the next job <br />
for tomorrow. <br />
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#28 <br />
I’m listening to Mahler’s 5th Symphony today <br />
because it was my mother’s favorite Mahler symphony <br />
and because we might take our 21-year-old cat to be euthanized tomorrow. <br />
As Louise & I discuss Bear the Cat’s dying <br />
(She can’t stand now. <br />
She doesn’t sleep curled like a cat anymore; <br />
she sleeps –or just rests & stares across the floor– <br />
sprawled, full length, <br />
like a dying animal.) <br />
we keep trying to decide what is humane, what is kind, what is good <br />
–what we want. <br />
Louise says she’d really like Bear to revive. <br />
Mahler said “Nobody understood it.” <br />
“I wish I could conduct the first performance fifty years after my death.” <br />
Our friend Beth said “You have to decide how much is comfortable for you.” <br />
“Either way, at the end, she’ll stop breathing and that will be uncomfortable for her…” <br />
“…it just might not last quite as long at the veterinarian.” <br />
My mother had a pretty good run; almost 80 years. <br />
She never wanted to linger at the end & she didn’t. <br />
She told my sister “I just don’t want to lose my mind.” <br />
We just wanted her to be the same as she was before. <br />
Bear doesn’t seem to be uncomfortable; <br />
So Louise decided to let her decide <br />
when she would die. <br />
<br />
#29 <br />
It was a good death. <br />
We’ve spent the last few days taking turns <br />
(though Louise was really the devoted one & I helped a little) <br />
trying to make her comfortable. <br />
She couldn’t really stand or even move much any more <br />
so we rolled her over, side to side, <br />
when she tensed up or looked pained. <br />
Every few moments or hours she tried to get up <br />
but her worn and withered, old muscles <br />
just couldn’t raise her. <br />
So we’d caress her, hold her, calm her back down. <br />
She hasn’t eaten anything or drank much for three days. <br />
Wednesday, Louise said she thought we were at an end. <br />
She lasted four more days. <br />
She had a strong heart. <br />
Finally, today, she just laid quietly with a quiet look on her face. <br />
Louise called to me from beside her: <br />
“It’s happening now.” <br />
We both held her. <br />
Her breathing slowed. <br />
Her legs twitched & seized a bit. <br />
She shivered, gasped a little, <br />
then she relaxed & withdrew. <br />
She’s gone now. </span><br />
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</span>Nathan and Louise Viste-Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12955189920541491722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517380654488987848.post-76479582105195801332009-10-13T15:52:00.001-05:002009-10-21T13:28:06.847-05:00After Leonardo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAEAzvGBrf6ipQL0Jtd5Z4OJ71NPF5mCq6oExlC4UIY1YSQz8GkJwAjw5wDmYKe8D1iS2y1QufJ49vg8CD1nrfGH5xSsyOyQTQ4NPaaGjMQRG6VXVxVSkdb6HQwIXPvfDg37ksB_bGwZAQ/s1600-h/Beauty+of+its+kind.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAEAzvGBrf6ipQL0Jtd5Z4OJ71NPF5mCq6oExlC4UIY1YSQz8GkJwAjw5wDmYKe8D1iS2y1QufJ49vg8CD1nrfGH5xSsyOyQTQ4NPaaGjMQRG6VXVxVSkdb6HQwIXPvfDg37ksB_bGwZAQ/s400/Beauty+of+its+kind.jpg" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">photo by Nathan </span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">of a painting by Louise </span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">after a painting by Leonardo</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">& a moth</span><br />
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<br />
Louise, last week at work a six-inch moth<br />
Lit on the gray, block wall next to my bench.<br />
It's northwoods not rainforest here; and so<br />
I was surprised –that this exotic thing<br />
With wings of indigo, gold, brown, black, rose,<br />
Was here at all and, further, here it chose<br />
To light beside me on a warehouse wall–<br />
Until I realized the palette of each wing<br />
Matched hue for hue the nearby painting you had shaped<br />
(Displaced here, too: on stark concrete, lush oils and cloth.)<br />
I tried to catch it so that I could show<br />
You what your art had drawn; but it escaped.<br />
Today, I couldn't have imagined what I'd find:<br />
The moth returned –and died– by beauty of its kind.Nathan and Louise Viste-Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12955189920541491722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517380654488987848.post-32444539553448189292009-08-31T16:22:00.013-05:002012-08-05T17:38:40.394-05:00PRIVATE & PUBLIC two poems<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PRIVATE</b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">& list of 1st lines</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">HAIKU...........................................................................1</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">With rapt attention</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">TANKA..........................................................................2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There have been courses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">SONNET..........................................................................3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The architecture of this vestibule</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">VILLANELLE...................................................................4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A person 's not a thing, it is a place</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">SESTINA..........................................................................5</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes it's almost quiet in this place,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">ECHO...............................................................................6</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am at the center of some place. Come face</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">STICHOMYTHIA................................................................7</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"How can I act?" "You can't. You're not a thing."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">RHOPALIC........................................................................8</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Place subsumes everything experienced individually</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">ANGLO-SAXON.................................................................9</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I've talked with teachers, friends ...Ah, Talk! For years</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">GHAZAL..........................................................................10</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Personalities cast & strown astride this place</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">VISUAL............................................................................11</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A part of and apart from a community</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">STEPPED LINES................................................................12</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">'FREE'.............................................................................13</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am a moment. A practiced, critical & expansive, insignificant</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">LIMERICK........................................................................14</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In every idea there is doubt</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">DOUBLE DACTYL.............................................................15</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All my experience,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">MNEMONIC......................................................................16</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Place</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">MINIMALIST....................................................................17</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I, you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">GNOMON........................................................................18</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A surprise:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">With rapt attention</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">–ideology suppressed–</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There remains a place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There have been courses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There are histories. For now,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There will be futures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Apart from these, there is an I;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I, a point, a place, a source.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The architecture of this vestibule</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Permits comparison, but no response.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It is constructed from a life of days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Its inner sanctum is approached in ways</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Unmappable. A fact without a rule.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Its features & materials are nonce;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A self-created simile used once </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Will always lose its accuracy hence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Each sanctuary's subjectivity</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is but one architect's proclivity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Aesthetics, though analogously shared,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">With facets made, admired, cleft & compared,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Can never really be experienced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My being makes me wonderfilled –and scared. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A person 's not a thing, it is a place</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Where history & desire become a source,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The quiet certainty beyond a face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Inside them, only fools will try to trace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Discrete parts of their wit, pride & remorse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A person 's not a thing, it is a place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There are no parts within. We are a lace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of love & memory who feel, with force, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The quiet certainty beyond a face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We are abstract inside our concrete case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In some ways, calling out just makes us hoarse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A person 's not a thing, it is a place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's longing, not living that shows the grace,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">−Wants are as delicate as needs are coarse−</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The quiet certainty beyond a face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Each person −for a time− just has some space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Don't rage against the dying light; there 's none, of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A person 's not a thing, it is a place,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The quiet certainty beyond a face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes it's almost quiet in this place,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In spite of noisy works that I desire</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To manifest as my apparent face,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As presence other places might admire;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But there 's a stilling conscious to the fact</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of here: inside of here I am, but I can't act.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Outside of me, my presence is an act.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Community is abstract. I'm a place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Connection is a theory. I'm a fact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And yet, there are connections I desire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's friction in each contact I admire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For this, I make the fiction that 's my face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes I scarce can tolerate this face;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Or th' implications of an –any– act.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some moments I completely don't admire</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The presence manifested by this place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I can't make me some thing that I desire;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Desire is a notion; I'm a fact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's difficult to make words mean a fact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To wrest the nouns & verbs out of a face</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Requires relinquishing all shared desire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It can't be done, of course. But just the act</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of marking out the boundaries of a place</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Teases out a bit of inside to admire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The source of everything I can admire</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is not about, but 's folded in the fact</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of me: the scattered notions in this place,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The relics of intent that make my face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sure, there 's a cause to any way I act;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But there 's no cause to cause. Thus, I desire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am in love with love. All I desire </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is intercourse with someone I admire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Discrete reaction to the way I act</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fills me full. Gives me yet another fact</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To reify the fiction of my face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To think about outside this lonely place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mixed facts, acts, admiration, face, desire</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yield artifice, an existential act. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Existence is the purpose of this place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">6)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am at the center of some place. Come face</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Me; my face radiates a fiction, a diction</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To discourse, some stories, allegories –love-glories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All my tense meaning 's forced sense-gleanings, sourced</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To others outside of all I am (how small I am.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But, though I can't touch, chant much</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">More than superficial claims, artificial names</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For things I think might be out there; about care,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I know much; –though such</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">A thing must be shared by all; my call</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is we must be more alike than not, man got</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This way together.– We, together, see separately;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">See each other all outside us, and provide thus</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A metaphor; nothing more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">7)</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"How can I act?" "You can't. You're not a thing."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"But I have bones..." "...and muscles too; and blood."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"So I must be..." "You have, but you are else."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"Do you mean spirit?" "No, that too 's a thing."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"What am I then?" "Then you are made a place."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"A place?" "A place where actions intersect."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"I act then!" "No, the acts create your face."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"My face?" "The face that you present outside."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"A fiction." "Yes, exactly! Novelty..."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"...Arranged so I connect..." "...to others, but..."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"...But if I'm just ideas..." "How can you be?"</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"How can I contact?" "Not contact, create."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"We can touch." "Things we make can intersect."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"Ah. Then they're not of us." "They're separate."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Outside of our place?" "Outside of our place."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"Then conversation must be..." "Fictional."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"We might as well be quiet." "Might as well."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Do you think we can effect..." "Each other?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Yes, outside." "It's impossible to tell."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"But what does matter?" "Noise. And pauses in..."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"...Between! The patterns!" "Yes. Patterns matter."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"But are there patterns in the patterns?" "God?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"No, I mean is there more..." "...that can be said?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"What can be said of me?" "There is a place."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">8)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Place subsumes everything experienced solipsistically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The issues effecting humanity differentiate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">From questions exciting –encompassing– personalities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"What worthwhile creations accompany immortality?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is sortof suggested generally (eventually);</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But selfish-personal/community-pandimensional</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Face never focuses, harmonizes instrumentally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Each growing expansive development 's continually</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Paused behind internal, monolithic specificity:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I cannot represent diversity individually;</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I'm only existence represented analogically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Facts, meanings, renderings, absolutely discomprehended</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Word options, anything generated extramentally</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Are outside; manifest internally ethereally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thought cannot precisely articulate physicality;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thought defines totally existential self-reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I likely understand relationships aesthetically:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">There's music, poetry –television– ...ornithology. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">These gestures addressing problematic externality</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Find fictive, practical connectedness; Art-spelunkery. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">9)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I've talked with teachers, friends ...Ah, Talk! For years</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Conversation has consumed me kept me fertile...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">About our bodies, being, matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We've deemed worthy one or ten thoughts, many things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But they've clustered 'round few concepts: conscience, conscious,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Creativity, communes, ...the color of ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We've tried to torque intense meaning</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Relaxed relations, longing, notice;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Any thing that's through our lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We've cleft clustered claims until we</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Seem to join in some relation, some simplicity that is profound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here's the hard part: Having melded with another,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Outside of us, of our contact,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm made more –a mutual graft–</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Two places prosper. Two persons remain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All these things of thought must be kept, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Forced by my face, confined within me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Harmonize my monotone; collide with this place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I've wondered how it must feel to be someone else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Does anyone want to be shown inside this place?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A cat imagines some things. Just look at their face!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I think there are cat-things I've known that guide this place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Aren't enough. Muscle & bone provide for this place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">By tomorrow, this fact –a real fact– will be displaced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's only memories I own that divide this place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My requiem? Dissolution 's the solution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Finally Nathan, alone, died and took his place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> at least some commotion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Only a notion</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am a moment. A practiced, critical & expansive, insignificant</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Scattered experience & shrouded history; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">From exapted desire & scrolls of fragrant cinnamon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I suppose I'd like to solve something, but there are no solutions really; just </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The only possibility –I think, perhaps, we should both pay close attention here. This</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The place where people dwell when speculations cross.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Nonsense & history are coincident speculations, –one feels comfortable, one not–</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Their context is the same: A singularity. The phantom grace in an event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If I lick my finger when the humidity is low, I can turn a page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If I can convince people to be sane, I can change the mottled course </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Or not. Conversations only reify desire, make ephemera thick & dense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I just have to assume it's good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">–especially 'purpose', 'about'–</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Except "I'm in here."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Descartes made that clear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm infixed and cannot get out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A surprise:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some noise becomes a song,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A melody</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Without the strains of harmony. 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">–There isn't two of anything in here;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just one place with a single strand of sound.–</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Follow the song.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">By the time you near its end</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Its beginning has dissolved into noise. 10</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Which, of course,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Becomes a song.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And thus, continually,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Until silence replaces noise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A surprise:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A person is appeared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It has never been before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It will never be again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sure, this content has a context.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Absolutely, form is not created from a void.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Still, an urge is not an environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">That we are of a society is correct.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But whorls in roan tresses are interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some noise becomes a song.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">(Some modesty becomes a poet.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some pauses linger long enough to change silence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(Some inter-city buses require exact change.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some flares are blinding bright.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(Some folks aren't bright enough to look away from the sun.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some patterns tease the senses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(In some sense, people never understand words.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some songs endure; others are quickly forgotten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(Some people are impossible to endure.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some place is where each person is situated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(Some situations inevitably give rise to aphorisms.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some things we call 'things' aren't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(Sometimes it's best to call a game.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A melody</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">'s a nod to the unique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pitch, tone, scale, place –and even altitude¬–</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Delimit how a song can be expressed;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But in expression is a sacrament:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Each tune, by definition, happens once.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You is not me. The subtlety 's the I. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Our absolute addiction to our self </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is understandable, intractable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But it's o.k.; it's lonely sometimes, but</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Our only bounds are physics, culture, genes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And chance; Within these we make melodies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We are of crystalline composition made; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Each, wafting singularities without</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A plan: Just form & beauty & descent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Without the strains of harmony,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">–The lilt & stress of chords– the bounds</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Between two anythings is null.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There isn't two of anything in here;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I only live a lacing, can recall</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Myself, –which does mean everything at all–</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My past, a ribbon scrunched into a ball.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Here, there 's no context. History is clear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I cannot know relation or pretense;</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Discourse requires a transcendental sense</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Beyond me. I'm a once, a single place;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The sole existence no rite can unprove.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The fact of me is separate from my face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just death can this veracity remove;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then what 's been my domain becomes a space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Until then, no out- can this in- reprove.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wait: In here there 's just is; there is no hence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">7</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just one place with a single strand of sound</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">–More like a knot than like a weave–</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is where the music, information, passion, meaning, me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is. I Cannot be site-read, understood, or even known.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">There is a score to be intoned –by a cabal of one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">No parse is possible within this pattern, but to note</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Its consequence, development, & analytical import</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is here, then not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">8</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Follow the song.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">You've a moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So intricate,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fascinating,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Plain, emergent;</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">It is this tune</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Within this place</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">That 's all you are.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">There 's danger here,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Comfort sometimes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Musty fishes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fresh raspberries,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thistles & stones,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thorny meaning,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Supple sunlight,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Blood, and fluids</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">That will never</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Coagulate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A life-salad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You can't unmix</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This metaphor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just sing along.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">See what happens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">9</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">By the time you near its end</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The story you are telling to yourself</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Always settles into a fable,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A unique cliche;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Albeit one with plot shifts,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Rafts of detail,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The occasional denouement,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And a good deal of confusion.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">But, throughout, all this stuff is located</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In a novel place.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">You can't leave this place, ever.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Pay attention.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Your story is the only fascination.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">If it bores you,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Consider suicide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">10</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Its beginning has dissolved into noise,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A noise that is the size of stars,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The noise that is the desire –and the demise– of poetry.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Now that it has meandered beyond its beginning,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This species, the distinct & abstract course of my origins,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Seems oddly alone among its lost history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">'Which', with one wan wave wills wants worthless; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">("Well, one way won't work.") 'Which'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Which, of course, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So "es" should supply some significant...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Sunrise</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Secrets & Proclamations.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Things Outside of You</i> (everything)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Things Inside of You</i> (nothing)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Impossibility of Crossing Those Bounds </i>(desire)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Attempt to Cross Those Bounds</i> (poetry) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And thus, continually,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There 's a presence in this place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Defined historically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Melded, merged & altered space;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A once –aesthetically</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Distinct from other face/times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Construed hermetically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This place maintains its own climes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Uniquely, selectively</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Cohered by internal rhymes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I think I'll assume the resolve of a musician:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As there can be reason to music, but no reason for music,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is reason, but no reason for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm all just paced noise & silence;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some beats, some pauses, some tunes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Without a reason perhaps,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But pleasing nevertheless,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And all me is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>PUBLIC</i></b> is a<i> Gnomon</i>, a form I created (made up?) & am promoting (as is the last verse in <b><i>PRIVATE </i></b><i>(above).) </i> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A<i> Gnomon </i>is simply a poem where the 1st verse is also a list of the first lines for the verses that follow. So, the 1st verse is a stanza, but also an index for the whole poem. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bare gray block walls, homogenous & plumb,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Up close show</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ancient sediments transformed;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Support a history; 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Conceal the thing we have become.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Within, a scarlet-to-verdant rainbow of thallophytes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Tuck-point the vascular cracklings growing across the walls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This thing is alive!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Each space of its interior 's a niche, 10</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mosaic and undulating, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Assembled and grown too;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Planned and random,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Without purpose; but made of causes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Its constituents prefer. 15</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, stone by stone & life by life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We've created Us an edifice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Completely desiccated on the out-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Side, face the any ways someone might come</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To look for what this monolith 's about;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Coherent but intractable, its parts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Are dovetailed like a jigsaw made their shapes;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To see inside requires both reasons, arts;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This vast, stone canvas shrouds our soul, it drapes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Across the knowable within this place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We are inside; but we are outside too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This thing contains our whole; our human race;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It is all things all people can construe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of Us this thing is all; of I, it's some.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We build within the Us we have become. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">they might thus postulate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">a unity which effects</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">immanent meaning; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What they know </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">as if it were right;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Right is the benefit </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">of uncomplicated analysis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Right is what we know </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">to be the whole</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">of all important things</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">to everyone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">–to Us, anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ancient sediments transformed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And crushed, compressed & pressured into glass</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lose parts;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Where there were cells, there is a body;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Where there were segments, there is a cord;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Where there were leaves, there is a canopy;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Where there were words, there is a litany;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Where there was singularity, there is a void.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Arrayed particles of everything condensed </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Have made, remade ¬–initiated– Us as stone;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The foundation and structure of all we've been.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">With any theory of the past</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And we create</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A future that will last</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Beyond our means</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To know, to urge, to hesitate;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To shape the cores of stories</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Or the in betweens;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To revel in our glories</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Or disaster's scenes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lives go not far,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">They go too fast;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To each, all 's lost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yet, here we are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Conceal the thing we have become</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and we become</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Obscure desire & ignore need</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">then we'll have made</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">tradition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Our skewed confabulations are not lies;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Negotiations aren't our only tool;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">No one can possibly devise</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">a public rhyme without a private rule;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and in that private part, the public whole is thus</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">inaccessible to any each of us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Within, a scarlet-to-verdant rainbow of thallophytes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Who, when compared to themselves, are gray, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Compose spectral exotica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Each of any of them is homogenous and spare;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Any group of them elaborate upon the organic paean:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Them who diversify, survive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We've learned to make beautiful –to prefer– many things;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It all seems like manipulation, but</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some things are toxic to us, others sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some, though, might chance to tolerate & thrive on poison;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then come great social shifts: What 's Good Will Change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Throughout, we resolutely cling on to the Right We Know;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But then it's not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Alone, we are a grasping preference;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Together we are a teeming essence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Tuck-point the vascular cracklings growing across the walls;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">They will be shored, but not renewed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Renew –part optimism, part advertising, part delusion–</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is the perfect oxymoron.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">-New is what was. Once. Re- is what will be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It is affixed to new incommensurately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And yet this word is meant & understood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Like rebirth, it pours through reason's sieve unchecked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mortar joins some stone; they make a wall, divide some space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Division 's like both birth & death; creation & destruction of a place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And like renewal & rebirth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We can believe it; but we can't have it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This thing is alive!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">That 's all that can be said. Words</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Name but don't explain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Without context, wordlessness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The solution 's outside, Us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Each space of its interior 's a niche,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A place where we can dwell, safe & alone;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A calm & pattern amongst cacophony & scatter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Blocked access to every other</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Interior intensifies interstices,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Connections: Our bonds between us are more forceful than us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Our longing for entrance is repelled</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just as we are drawn to each other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So we're compelled to investigate surfaces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This place can draw us into a body, lithe & gracile,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Or thicken & crush us into dusky, dun clots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Structures, pieced into an aggregate,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Experienced variously,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Articulated promiscuously,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yet understood hardly at all;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Constructions & conjunctions </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Are our legacy. We join </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To extend us into a history; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To stretch ourselves into dazzling, spectral arrays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Assembled and grown too,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Practice –partly habit, part innovation–</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is a constructive gesture</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Constrained by practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Recursive patterns, emerging & ancient both,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Inform our structure,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Brace our ideas,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Are, unreasonably, the cause of us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, what we do means;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We have the means.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Planned and random</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Really aren't opposed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Like dark & light or</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ice cubes floating on a boiling pool of mud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There 's lots of chance in the meticulous time spent</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Carefully parsing out the bounds of happenstance;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">No creation is outside of fortune's cast;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Random:Planned are orchestrated more like Future:Past;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Coupled, each</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Part the other. We're</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Imbued with both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As we calculate wherefore our luck might last,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We anticipate the glory of our past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Without purpose; but made of causes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">People is a clade of clans; construed consuetudes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">About somethings that mean to someones; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">An aggregate where parts & gaps define</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A stout, knit brace of flights, disappearing & emerging </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As other into-outof other things. There is some sadness in</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Each shout, feebly emanating from any one idea–</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bred, combined & extincted by their very reach-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ing out to join companion notions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is legacy in all this ideology: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We tout provenance and providence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Its constituents prefer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What they have known, what they've been;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The parts of an emerging trans-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Formation really are the same</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As they were before; relation</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is the only thing that has changed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's the where-with-all that alters</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here-alone into some new place:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The structure of public discourse</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is exapted urges, some form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, stone by stone & life by life,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We have committed all our acts to history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We are that history ¬assembled by a luck–</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's just as lucky to be smart</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As big or small or able or to have good, strong teeth</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(What works is physics; what we can try is luck.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of course, the tangle in this maze we've made</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is part of what all chance, great systems be:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The absolutely uncoincidental fortune we</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Owe to our teachers, peers & enemies;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The reckoning our ancestors provide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We've created Us an edifice;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Built a glory of our lives; transcribed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Th' halo that surrounds us, gives Us grace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Us, the thing we've built– is purposeful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Us, the thing we've built, is purposeful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The reckoning our ancestors provide</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We tout provenance and providence;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We anticipate the glory of our past;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We have the means</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To stretch ourselves into dazzling, spectral arrays</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Or thicken & crush Us into dusky, dun clots. 10</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The solution 's outside, Us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We can believe it, but we can't have it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Together, we are a teeming essence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Inaccessible to any each of us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The foundation & structure of all we've been</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We build within the Us we have become.</span></div>Nathan and Louise Viste-Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12955189920541491722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517380654488987848.post-13355669186727599672009-08-21T01:32:00.002-05:002009-08-21T01:48:00.119-05:00five paintings<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO_1eTCgTq0MKxP-pQbJFNTPmerEUDyfRT1UwecoqnuloXWmPHnaUdC0gH8yquQxL8Snmw5kJPTuZnOaX7nJqU0_uBftUEwapml8sDtnEvBm2v18Jfkmf_y7JMEnDzKlJBD0egl1NodrRE/s1600-h/five+paintings.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO_1eTCgTq0MKxP-pQbJFNTPmerEUDyfRT1UwecoqnuloXWmPHnaUdC0gH8yquQxL8Snmw5kJPTuZnOaX7nJqU0_uBftUEwapml8sDtnEvBm2v18Jfkmf_y7JMEnDzKlJBD0egl1NodrRE/s400/five+paintings.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372302404008723730" /></a>Nathan and Louise Viste-Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12955189920541491722noreply@blogger.com0