Which Is Where We Are Now

  • We go on our walk
    Leash slung around my torso
    Stick resting on my shoulder
    Me, in boots and hat
    The master
     understander of social obligations to fellow path–takers
     barker of commands
     thrower of the stick
     gazing ahead at her
     Her happiness mine
    She, naked to the world
    The child
     wagging her tail and shyly, naïvely approaching all comers
     reluctant heeder
     joyful fetcher
     exploring the vast world of
      earthly treasures
      surrounding us

    Creative Child

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    16 Nov 2008
    flying pigs book, Lexi
  • A hard scientific concept to explain
     light
    It knows the fastest route
     ahead of time
    and bends as it transitions,
     veers course
    joyously following some cosmic efficiency
    depending on the medium in which
     it finds itself
    I throw the stick far down the creek
     thinking to guide Lexi into a long swim
    with natural instinct she trots
     lengthwise down the watery beach
     and, in happenstance, selects
     the most efficient entrance to dive into the deep
    Then there were those long minutes she spent
     at the edge of the pool
    Determinedly awaiting the stick
     to drift to her

    Refraction

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    10 Nov 2008
    flying pigs book, Lexi
  • I walk through a neighborhood
    I’ve lived by all my life and never have seen
    Low sun kissing autumn leaves
    the birds gaze at me overhead
    As I go from house to house: no one home
    All the political rhetoric, my own visions
    of the future, fade as the strong
    silence speaks of so many astonishingly different
    lives, congregations, bubbles of authentic existence
    I check another NH box, and my communist dreams shudder
    I'm beginning to understand this
    notion of small government, I feel
    wild individualism growing like a rash
    around me, smug and complacent
    “Good fences make good neighbors”
    smiling contentedly at me
    Government is now such a tiny fragment of these peoples’, anyone’s, life
    Me, a solicitor — a trespasser —
    wading through the peace of sunset
    And it's so sad; even for a romance, these days,
    its health requires some rugged independence
    I get home and run for my lonely, lonely life

    Canvasing

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    18 Oct 2008
    flying pigs book
  • The scene dimmed
     with a gentle rush of wind
     as the leaves fell into the stream
    The dreamlike matte blurring of the surface
     as the sunken leaves glowed like gems
    All the while, soft droplets innocently danced
     with their distinctive expansion everywhere
    Followed by heavier drops, deeper, not intrusive
     — on another level, ringing out —
    And the kersplash and the wake of my dog
     causing huge ripples, yet still harmonious
     with all the beautiful blustery co–action
    Wispy winds brush over the water
     with their own tickling touch
    The wind and a pleasant rain
     come up from behind me, pushing me towards
     the vast coverage of webs of undulations
     all clearly distinct, all meshing together
    in a beautiful, delicious, mystifying
     fall day of fetch

    Fall Fetching

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    4 Oct 2008
    flying pigs book, Lexi
  • I love myself
    I love the big elephant standing
     in the room of myself
    and the little mouse of myself
    And the little mouse of myself
     will tell that elephant
     that its wild dreams of flying
     were quite real
    and the restraint holding him back,
     quite psychological
    And what an absurd sight I will be
    a blundering mass of flying elephant aloft
    and a mouse astride myself with glee

    Dumbo

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    18 Sep 2008
    flying pigs book
  • Wise child
    you already know
    what lays beyond

    Step-by-step
    allow self-belief
    to faithfully guide you

    Within, words of peace
    your words of peace
    So, be at peace
    Take some time to be at peace
    Peace within before you begin.

    Preface

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    17 Sep 2008
    flying pigs book
  • Sticks are too small to waste her time with
    Only branches will do
    I break a nice big one down to 5 feet
     we walk down to the stream
    We could go on and on
     forever casting and fetching
    I throw it out beyond the bend
     she stops as she approaches it
     her face all perplexity
     and looks into the water just under her
    With a strange backward digging effort
     she thrashes
     dives her head into the water
     and exhumes a waterlogged 12–foot branch
    With glee, she trots back with it
    Sometimes, she’ll voraciously
     chew up an over–sized log dredged from the depths
     biting away in continuous joy and concentrated angst
     with the occasional bit of wood wedged in her teeth
     Sometimes, she’ll disintegrate the whole thing to shreds
    This time, we cast and fetch
     over and over
     a rainbow in each splash
    Too big for us to carry away in comfort

    Waterlogged

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    24 Apr 2008
    4 etc, Lexi
  • Not everyone needs
     to be overwhelmed
     by thunder and lightening
    Something tender
      and familiar
     strong but approachable
    We wink at one another
    and smile at how crafty
     such a powerful being in love is
    Considerate, rather

    Jupiter and Io

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    10 Apr 2008
    lion book
  • Luria Park, I knew since my youth
    On a field trip there, I found an ant creature
    Upon magnifying the water in a microscope
    It was there I learned that Lexi loved the water
    and was afraid to swim
    And walking back from there with her
    We bumped into and a cousin of Lexi’s, Nico
    and his kind owner Jim
    who suggested the path to the nearby lake
    where we’d later teach her to swim
    Then there are the two parks nearby
    which Evi and Anyu once graced
    which I go to for a change of pace
    Lexi even discovered the dog park
    by her own intuitive pulling one day
    And my brother suggested the nearby nature center
    which offered its own mystical stream
    journey under the beltway
    And that bike ride down Camelot which
    revealed the trail with a new, wide stream
    that I have yet to take her to
    And for all this wonder,
    she just wants to be fetching in the water

    Distance to Water

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    6 Apr 2008
    flying pigs book, Lexi
  • We cross the bridge
    and the water there is perfect,
    wide and deep
    with a soft beach for entry
    Cast, cast, cast
    Swim, swim, swim
    Fetch, fetch, fetch
    While Lexi furtively fetches
    I lean upon the rusting railing in repose
    After a fetch, I calmly gaze upon a pair of yellow–winged butterflies
    Hip, hop, hip, hop, along the beach
    One flutters a foot; the other follows
    Then, stillness; their wings parallel, vertical
    The moment holds its breath
    while still calmly breathing
    easy, like the gentle breeze that crowns us

    Wings open
    Her wings open in one majestic bloom
    neither slow nor fast
    not confident or timid
    but all those things and none
    such she unfolds her world to him
    He gazes upon her pattern
    while another epoch quietly breathes withheld breath

    He pounces upon her
    Her wings fly up, a Venus encircling him
    My heart exalts that such ravishing peace could exist in the world
    My brain, dizzy, torn asunder
    How long, I wonder,
    could this incredible little bliss be permitted to exist
    I pause, grateful for each second
    as Lexi pleads for another fetch
    Lest she bark, I contrive to throw the branch over the other side
    But, upon my first movement, she careens down the sand into the water

    He disappears
    She hops from one rock to the other and back to their love-patch
    in despair, love–lost.
    In a fortunate bizarre twist,
    Lexi goes under the bridge and up the other side
    Lady butterfly hops
    I wait, another epoch
    Just a half epoch
    He comes from nowhere
    and, instantly, they rejoin in their double–V

    Down the path we go, to leave them to the delight of the world
    I have to laugh at myself for thinking 30 minutes enough for eternity
    for, when we double–back later
    and I've promised Lexi a proper romp in the perfect water,
    I realize that she’s disturbed them again

    Little Time for a Little Love

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    15 Aug 2007
    4 etc, Lexi
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