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Ordinary Sutras
Con/Jur/d 7/24/2020
Struggling with ordinary
Sutras — Now my tooth pain is
Gone and my foot hurts — Old age
An unexpected blessing.
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Ordinary Things
Con/Jur/d March 200?
Last night,
As you told me this morning
You dreamed of rainbow-hued dragonflies
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Seven feet long
a difficult sleep
in your grandmother’s house while New
England squirrels
scratched inside
the walls.
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Last night I had a hard time sleeping
afraid of a new era of insects
come once again,
generated from ebony clouds
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stacking against the sunset of our
drowning world.
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I worried how the giant earwigs
and bloodsuckers would treat my child
and her children,
woken repeatedly by the triumphant
squeak of vermin finding new _______________
___________________________ paths
in the walls.
Was this what he meant by ‘archaic revival?’
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Among those present, with certainty, the rate of
measurable coincidence, and perceived crypto-
allegiance is replicating like lice and mice in
bleak houses and yards of too lazy, too cozy
to become feral cats, and always summer dogs.
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What would a jingle for the Oversoul sound like?
The gale of mythic dragon scales rubbing together
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in easterly harmonies,
or the hallucinations produced
by nerves singing their ‘freedom’ from embodied
and castrated cults of cultural conformity.
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Today, fifty years of domesticated caring arrived.
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Beneath art-deco lamps, precious collectible china,
and clothes from thirty-year-old fashion was a desk,
my name attached and printed bold upon yellow scrap
with a light blue magic marker-
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A future place, now used,
for poetry, work, meditation
and, with luck, microprocessed daylight dreams.
In the bottom drawer, amid old leather gloves and
purses, a historical collection of playing cards (even
a bridge deck from a dental lab) and commemorative
knick-knacks was a polished walnut cigar case,
wrapped in purple velvet, of a family member’s ashes.
How ordinary it was, for me to be surprised as I pried
it free, my memory is of a small woman filled with
life and love,
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The box was heavier than I expected.
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Until next time. (Could, someone, please, pull-this?)
Con/Jur/d