I especially like ‘minions of light,’ but the whole sparkles, Hal.
Doug
On Jun 1, 2015, at 10:34 AM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dominant Craters
> <https://www.facebook.com/notes/halvard-johnson/dominant-craters/10154246544964572>
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> Along with the others, we approached their dominance
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> with a certain degree of skepticism. False annunciations
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> had taught us well, and when the harpsichord broke
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> down on the way to mass . . . well, we broke into howls
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> of despair. The dirty window overlooking the air shaft
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> allowed only a few minions of light to enter. Daylight
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> admitted rumors of thyroid and other endocrine
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> disorders--indolent diseases (or was it "insolent"?)
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> we were told. When news broke that the Second Coming
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> had been aborted by a back-alley abortionist in Waco, due
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> to the closing of Planned Parenthood clinics in all fifty
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> states, no hue and cry from the right. Expectations
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> of End Times rose to fever pitch, subsided when month
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> followed month, rose again. Unending war. Amen.
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>
> --HJ
> "*Vraiment*,
> Poetry can be so many more things
> Than what people mostly believe it is."
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> --Anselm Hollo
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> Halvard Johnson
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Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
There is no life that does not rise
melodic from scales of the marvelous.
To which our grief refers.
Robert Duncan.
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