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Archive for April 11th, 2007

One Last Anti-Slam

Posted in Culture, Money, Nature, Poetry, Random, Topic Writing, Writers on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Don’t know about Slams, no, not my cup of tea. But poetry has got it going on this week in Minnesota. As I write, Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry is happening at the Mill City Museum down by the Mississippi. Featured poets, Robert Bly, Bill Holm, Michael Dennis Browne, [...]

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Homesick for Rest

Posted in Nature, Place, Poetry, Things That Fly, Topic Writing on April 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »

homesick for rest
a sandhill crane feeds
on a crawfish bottom
I offer a warm place
staring through a hole
in a dark Nebraska blind
soles wet with February frost
smashing feathers as I walk
dry on the backstep
dirty brown slip covers
of ancient river mud
leave me hungry for sentiment
startled chestnut leaf
crinkles against the sky
somewhere frozen there
is my heart
from Topic post, Slam-o-rama
Wednesday, April 11th, [...]

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I Don’t Do Slam

Posted in Art, Doodling, Laughing, Nature, Poetry, Secrets, Spirituality, Topic Writing on April 11, 2007 | 6 Comments »

I don’t do slam.
Not like slam I am.
I prefer spam.
Grilled.
Or bologna or cheese please.
Anything but slam.

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