ㅁ trees on the shore were becoming the wind wind on the sea was creating the waves sounds of the waves were disturbing my dreams dreaming I knew that the storm would soon pass
Category: Book 4
Caveat: Poem #2227 “Monastic”
Caveat: Poem #2226 “Purpose”
Caveat: Poem #2225 “Retrospective”
Caveat: Poem #2224 “This week’s episode”
Caveat: Poem #2223 “Unsolved”
Caveat: Poem #2222 “Numerological”
Caveat: Poem #2221 “Bonus”
Caveat: Poem #2220 “Artistry”
Caveat: Poem #2219 “Get the ladder”
Caveat: Poem #2218 “The current state of things”
ㅁ I'll end up like him: angry, taciturn, anxious. And I'll have no friends. As an old person, I'll insist that change is bad, Reject solutions. "Oh the kids these days... Lazy and badly brought up. Get off my damn lawn!" "The world's getting worse The system's out to get us." What system is this? Occam's razor says Nah, it's random fluctuations. There's no evil there. Shrug. I'll hunker down, A misunderstood hermit. Let my soul get stale.
Caveat: Poem #2217 “Try this at home”
Caveat: Poem #2216 “Midnight surprise”
Caveat: Poem #2215 “Sixty-second stanza”
ㅁ Kiamon dreamed that the wind was her friend, Happy to blow through a life near its end. Waking she realized she wasn't yet dead; rising, she went out to see where things led.
Caveat: Poem #2214 “Carpe diem”
ㅁ Seize the day, they say. The day slips out of your grasp. You just do dumb stuff.
Caveat: Poem #2213 “On the road”
Caveat: Poem #2212 “Now you know”
ㅁ Demonstrative sighs - sighs that call out, "I'm a sigh!" Those sighs annoy me. Sigh.
Caveat: Poem #2211 “Of course”
Caveat: Poem #2210 “Disappointment”
Caveat: Poem #2209 “Exuberance”
Caveat: Poem #2208 “Waiting”
Caveat: Poem #2207 “Anthropomorphization”
Caveat: Poem #2206 “A non-event”
Caveat: Poem #2205 “The visible”
Caveat: Poem #2204 “Query”
Caveat: Poem #2203 “Things to do”
ㅁ The dog likes to take her walk running free down by the dock; she doesn't hang out or talk.
Caveat: Poem #2202 “Stasis”
ㅁ Terrible dreams: broken saws, sunken boats, failing to draw, angry people, feeling blah.
Caveat: Poem #2201 “A dog’s life”
ㅁ And so then it came to pass, the dog grazed upon the grass: a creature in a strange class.
Caveat: Poem #2200 “The forecast”
ㅁ So they saw how it has been; they said it would rain again. You have to be a bit zen.
Caveat: Poem #2199 “Graduate review”
ㅁ So in the dream I returned to U of Penn where I learned that my thoughts would have been spurned.
Caveat: Poem #2198 “Focus”
ㅁ Do slugs ever get to sleep? Is their life just dreaming deep? "I dreamed I climbed a stone: steep."
Caveat: Poem #2197 “Room to stretch”
ㅁ Put a redwood in the ground because its roots had been bound by its pot, plastic and round.
Caveat: Poem #2196 “Speechifying”
ㅁ The words came out like tree sap, viscous, soporific pap, brought on in me a brief nap.