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An Umteenth Edit
I keep paring...and now I've gone from 3rd person to 1st...trying to take the preachiness out. The title is probably, I am not a ghost...: I am not eyes and earsin a box, waitingfor gods to cut the tape.I am a simplicityof odd stones,tumbling.I am a momentwhispering into the mouthsof waiting trees.I am the grassesand I am the deerborrowing ...
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oddness
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February 2, 2009
Happy Veterans Day, Bratsche.
I'm afraid my poem was never deliberately organized. The rhythm seemed to tell me to cut at the sixth line in this one...I tend towards the organic, I guess, when it comes to strophes (I hope I'm using that word correctly). I see them like paragraphs. I have absolutely know formal education in poetry. none whatsoever. Anything I know, I learned ...
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catnapping
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November 11, 2008