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Four Moments of Reflection on Practical Creation through Imagination
1. brief meditation upon your skirt
an exquisite Austrian skirt
purchased from a second hand store
cascades like wind currents
it dances on its own
a whirling dervish
slowed by the earth's gravity
pulsating gently from the floor
everything in existence is meditating
and I am the meditation
I am learning a new kind of balance:
patient urgency
2. remembering Johannes the Seducer
Kierkegaard broke his engagement
to Regine Olsen by pretending
he entered brothels creating
an image of infidelity
to break her heart
that was the easy way
then he wrote Either/Or
featuring a seducer's diary
how similar they are
machinating their lives
Johannes pretended he cared
enough to keep himself interested
and flocked to the next woman
before his first seduction completed
pretending is unimaginative
because it is cheap
I understand you, Soren,
and don't think I don't see
you wrote from a place guilt
3. whereupon we create together
I have played the part
given to me to its end
true imagination is constructive
building beyond its bounds
in seismic ripples from your skirt
dropping fresh succulent apples
the script of my life has ended
and I need a new authorship
I have learned that William Blake
often took his wife to his backyard
where they were the founders of humankind
living the myth of the Garden of Eden
naked for all to see:
remember - shame came after
the Tree of Knowledge
he understood the need
connecting all of his being
to the divine moment of creation
I will pick your apples
from the ground
and eat them
4. a hommage
Piter Piter, snowy night,
In the city's wondrous sight;
What song beckons from thy chest,
Carry words we may ingest?
Flitted flurries come and go,
Winter's melody bestow;
Your hands, mine, across the sea
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an exquisite Austrian skirt
purchased from a second hand store
cascades like wind currents
it dances on its own
a whirling dervish
slowed by the earth's gravity
pulsating gently from the floor
everything in existence is meditating
and I am the meditation
I am learning a new kind of balance:
patient urgency
2. remembering Johannes the Seducer
Kierkegaard broke his engagement
to Regine Olsen by pretending
he entered brothels creating
an image of infidelity
to break her heart
that was the easy way
then he wrote Either/Or
featuring a seducer's diary
how similar they are
machinating their lives
Johannes pretended he cared
enough to keep himself interested
and flocked to the next woman
before his first seduction completed
pretending is unimaginative
because it is cheap
I understand you, Soren,
and don't think I don't see
you wrote from a place guilt
3. whereupon we create together
I have played the part
given to me to its end
true imagination is constructive
building beyond its bounds
in seismic ripples from your skirt
dropping fresh succulent apples
the script of my life has ended
and I need a new authorship
I have learned that William Blake
often took his wife to his backyard
where they were the founders of humankind
living the myth of the Garden of Eden
naked for all to see:
remember - shame came after
the Tree of Knowledge
he understood the need
connecting all of his being
to the divine moment of creation
I will pick your apples
from the ground
and eat them
4. a hommage
Piter Piter, snowy night,
In the city's wondrous sight;
What song beckons from thy chest,
Carry words we may ingest?
Flitted flurries come and go,
Winter's melody bestow;
Your hands, mine, across the sea
Connect electronically.
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