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Be advised: I write ecstatically/ in quiet contentment uncontained

awakened by internal clock, @4:00am,

as usual, my array of swimming ducks

moving methodically round&down

a mental mechanical water shoot, a channel,

pathed to move unceasingly from here, to nowhere,

and then returned by a grooved trough that cannot be scene,

for it reverts from the back channeled

recesses of my mind’s envisionings,

to the front of

travels, travails, paths and pathways, most interestingly,

all, together, now,

the water and words both flow on a river of deep pleasure,

for a poet from long ago, who’s words years ago dazzled,

gone dark, returns, resurrected from off to on the grid,

and I grin and bare it, a toothy smile from ear to ear,

 

Harlon Rivers

has returned, we can recall home the milk

containers with pics of Gone Missing Poets, and just

lean back and write on, in a spirit of an unusual (for me)

quiet

content meant to upon be giddy gliding…

5:10am

5/27/26

 

 

ah, an after thought

~~~

i read dead poets;

whitman, hafiz, plath,

from paperbacks on my night stand,

they lullaby to a quick relief of sweet sleep,

while deep in my cortex, they implant phraseological

sniffs and scents of future poetic exploratories that

 

need revivification, resurrection, and then to be just cherished for a prior excellence that is seeding small gems

of

smiling quiet of deep contentment unconfined

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nat-lipstadt
99 / M / NYC/Lippstadt/Kraków
Published
May 27
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