tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13948402192820540262024-03-08T01:11:15.961-08:00And Then Some: the tumbledown poetry of Miriam DunnA little bit of this and that, poetry and prose, and then some.
Photos taken by Olivia MacDonaldMiriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-68929267881744902892016-06-11T18:42:00.000-07:002016-06-11T18:42:12.647-07:00Who Will Love the Crow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am delighted to share with you the exciting news of my book release <i>Who Will Love the Crow</i> through Winter Goose Publishing. This is my debut solo collection and features the photography from Olivia MacDonald, my daughter, whose photographs I feature on my blog. <a href="http://wintergoosepublishing.com/authors/miriam-dunn/" target="_blank">Visit my author's page </a><br />
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Selected Amazon Reviews<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; line-height: 19px;">the poems speak to us all about intimate, as well as universal moments, both fleeting and permanently etched on our hearts."</span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; line-height: 19px;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">They're gorgeous themes and imagery elegantly packaged into a readable contemporary form that hearkens also back to romanticists. Her work is also rife with sensuality and tension. They're brooding and also hopeful."</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">There is a simultaneous sense of integration and distance which invites the reader to thoughtfully consider and develop their own, unique relationship to the subject matter from a place of quiet stillness and peace."</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">In Theme, tone, and content, Miriam Dunn's poetry speaks the language of the soul. Her innate gift for rhyming evokes emotional power by its fluid simplicity and seeming effortlessness."</span></i></div>
Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-18150188854337262712016-06-11T18:09:00.001-07:002016-06-12T04:22:41.842-07:00Five Days at the Glace Bay Shore<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><b>Day One </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">On this day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">waves move like lovers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">one trying to catch the other</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">rushing breathless toward to the palm of shore</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">They join in a tangled dance</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">a rapturous violence</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">churned and spun and toppled</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">upside down and around each other</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">watery limbs entwined and broken </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">They become one. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><b>Day Two</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">At noon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">two men get out of their truck</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">as casual as cats</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">descend the uneven, pathless rocks to water edge</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">These are not the people I expect to see</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">strolling shorelines:</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Truck people</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Men in caps</span></i><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">They are not poets or dreamers or lovers</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">The older one stops and bends</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">picks up something small</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">hunched over with his old back</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">examines it in his hand</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and reaches it out for the other to see</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">The other</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">with his younger back and hands without callouses</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">leans in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">(it is an unspoken rule on shores to stop and look at whatever your companion finds and extends to you)</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">I sit in my car watching</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">wanting to know what treasure he has found</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">wanting to join them</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><i>as casual as a cat</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">down on the shoreline</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><i>"Nice day! Whatcha got there?"</i> I could say.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">And we could all become friends, eventually,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">agree to meet tomorrow.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">share our finds.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">or a tuna sandwich.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">But I am a voyeur</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">with a pen and a poem to write.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">And maybe they are lovers, after all.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;"><b>Day Three</b></span></span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">On this shore </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">a group of gulls take off</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">face the wind</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">hang in the air, defiant</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">pressing themselves against the invisible </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">then turn and fly</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">behind the low cliffs</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">A small blue fishing boat</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">heads toward the smooth edge of the ocean</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">and I know it will disappear, as well</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">A speck swallowed by horizon </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Though the fishers will still feel more part of the world</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">than I.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Day Four</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">On this shore</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">juts a jigsaw of cliffs</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">counting years in the millions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">their jagged face</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">lets you see what is not there</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">And I wonder how much</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">of that cliff wall is now sand</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">dislodged</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">rehomed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">caught in an endless tumble at the cliff’s feet </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">or gone out to sea</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">alone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">where it accounts for nothing</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Day Five</b><br />
<b><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">How much time have I spent</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">watching things disappear?</span></div>
Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-49163554817267009672016-06-11T17:46:00.004-07:002016-06-11T17:46:40.878-07:00Seeds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">At night </span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">we are seeds</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">buried in the coal-black of sky</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">growing</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">into something beautiful</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> </span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">and strong</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">breaking through</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">the hard shell </span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Each morning </span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">we unearth ourselves</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">reaching toward the light</span></div>
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Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-67090367975579428972016-06-11T17:41:00.000-07:002016-06-11T17:48:40.589-07:00Low Tide Days <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It is a low tide day.<br />
Words come gently<br />
and linger;<br />
ideas lap in low rumbling trots.<br />
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It is a day of slow strolls<br />
and being still along the edge<br />
without turning back.<br />
<br />
Nothing old gets returned,<br />
swept up and dropped at our feet.<br />
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The other side is that much closer;<br />
we might even touch<br />
on low tide days<br />
like these.</div>
Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-61085555755730967962016-06-11T17:38:00.002-07:002016-06-11T17:38:14.446-07:00Black Boulevard <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I look for the place<br />where we are born<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><i>you and I</i><br /><br />It is the place where images and sound and rhythm meet<br />and birth us as twins<br /><br />a time before the slow<br />disintegration of unselfconsciousness<br />when we were pure<br />and whole<br />and all things at once<br />held together by points of view<br />bonded<br />through trust </div>
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without understanding<br />imagination</div>
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without interpretation<br /><br />The place is the black boulevard<br />between songs<br />on a scratchy record. </div>
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Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-43224972719313504932016-06-11T06:10:00.002-07:002016-06-11T06:14:49.280-07:00What Beauty Born<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">What beauty born</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">rooting your days</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">to the dry</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">spreading your losses</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">in loosed winds</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">ugly rivers down in tongues</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">You arch across the day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">from morning to moon</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">tempting a tremble</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">tempting a fall</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">much ado about decay</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">but what beauty born </span> </div>
Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-46375261459019010382016-06-11T05:58:00.002-07:002016-06-11T17:48:51.603-07:00Spring Clean <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">Outside, our filth is unearthed</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">as winter recedes</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">and everything is a tired shade of brown.</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">This is the midway</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">when the pendulum swings</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">between </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">the purity of dead white winter</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">and the lusciousness of August. </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">The air is not quite fresh</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">as April's fungi and mold</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">heave and ho tiny lungfuls of decay.</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">The sky, soon cornflower blue,</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">is just recovering from a long bout </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">of iron cloud days </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">and </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">May's roadsides are lined with our carelessness,</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">even as eager green sprouts </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">push their way through the spiritless
fallow </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">that covers the garden like brown paper
packages </span></span></span></h2>
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Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-29191496722143902362016-06-11T05:55:00.002-07:002016-06-11T06:17:58.999-07:00I Will Disappear <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">I will disappear, slowly</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">like a dirt path beneath the falling snow; </span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">like a small bird in a large sky,</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">my bird eyes looking straight ahead and never
back</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">until I am in some other sky far from
where I started.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I will disappear </span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">like the long crest of storm waves rushing </span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">to the curve of a sandy shore;</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">like white smoke from a small fire</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">rising upward into a cloudy day;</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I will disappear like the echo of a Sunday bell</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">that stopped ringing just moments past </span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">not like one drowning</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">not like one fighting </span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">not like one falling</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">for these have no grace</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">not as a room when a door slams shut</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">or a voice when the phone is disconnected</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">for these are too sudden</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I will disappear like last week's bruise</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">the blue beneath my skin, fading. </span><br />
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Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-26508332881023515192016-06-11T05:51:00.003-07:002016-06-11T06:23:22.154-07:00The Darkness in Me <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The darkness in me<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was once a daybreak<o:p></o:p></div>
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that forgot to
belong<br />
the birth of a star<br />
and the loss of a star<o:p></o:p></div>
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and the loss of a
star<o:p></o:p></div>
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which all feel<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the same<br />
<br />
The darkness in me<br />
The darkness in me<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is the life
that we live<o:p></o:p></div>
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and the love that
gives life<o:p></o:p></div>
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and goes out in a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>beat<br />
and the beat that’s in me<o:p></o:p></div>
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is the god and the
end<o:p></o:p></div>
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and the no and the
full<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
The darkness in me is a seed<o:p></o:p></div>
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and a child <o:p></o:p></div>
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as heat in a
drought<o:p></o:p></div>
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the wind in the
blue<br />
The darkness in me is a love that is lost<o:p></o:p></div>
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and a day at the
park<o:p></o:p></div>
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and a day in the
rain<o:p></o:p></div>
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and a day in my
bed<o:p></o:p></div>
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and a day walking
sideways<o:p></o:p></div>
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and a day in a tub
with a stranger<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>that's you</i><br />
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when there’s a message<o:p></o:p></div>
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when none has been
sent<o:p></o:p></div>
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the chase through
the snow<o:p></o:p></div>
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the reach for the
phone<o:p></o:p></div>
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the close of a
book<o:p></o:p></div>
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The darkness in me<o:p></o:p></div>
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is a leaf crushed
and blown<o:p></o:p></div>
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fallen and
withered<o:p></o:p></div>
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all that I've
known<o:p></o:p></div>
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once a sunrise<o:p></o:p></div>
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the unknown life<o:p></o:p></div>
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is a word and a
rhyme<o:p></o:p></div>
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and a keeping of
time<o:p></o:p></div>
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that falls out of
step<o:p></o:p></div>
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The darkness in me<o:p></o:p></div>
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the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>never<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and true<o:p></o:p></div>
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given away<o:p></o:p></div>
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wrapped and presented<o:p></o:p></div>
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The darkness in me is the static I
hear<o:p></o:p></div>
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the sleep on the floor<o:p></o:p></div>
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not started, not done<o:p></o:p></div>
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returned to the sky<o:p></o:p></div>
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The darkness in me<o:p></o:p></div>
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is all that I've known<o:p></o:p></div>
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and all that I am<o:p></o:p></div>
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the moon and the sun</div>
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Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-88188648534840994932013-08-06T10:55:00.004-07:002013-08-06T10:55:31.155-07:00Knitting Time <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-83557999682706170772013-08-06T10:54:00.000-07:002013-08-06T10:54:09.320-07:00The Space Between <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">This can not be taught</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and this can not be known;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">the deep stillness of our being</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">the glass before it's blown</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">the spokes within the wheel</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">the empty pot, the seed unsewn</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">the block of wood </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">~ that's not been carved</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">the jewelled, but empty, throne.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The pinpoint of existence</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">before the fire was spread</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">in ashes of our longing</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">~ the word, before it's said</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">the continent that is our heart</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">before the ocean grew</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and moved us close together</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">in the space between the two.</span></div>
Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-66421638237331626852013-08-06T10:46:00.002-07:002013-08-06T10:46:50.616-07:00Old Words<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">I</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> found these old words</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">buried barely</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">in sands of time</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">the tide of days</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">brought them to me, polished</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">and made me think of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">lilacs</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">and canyons</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">and a matchbox home</span><div>
a claw-foot tub, big enough for two<br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">when I thought I held your heart</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">in my hand</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">like a stone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">
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Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-25862570641718846572013-08-06T10:43:00.000-07:002013-08-06T10:43:07.478-07:00Night Time Walkers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">And there you are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">pulling me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">as I play like one helpless</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">because I love the pull</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and I love that you are there</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">even when you are not</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">even when you are hiding</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">even when</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">you tip your gaze and shadow all your longing</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">you follow me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I follow you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">to the dark side</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">to the other side</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and our mysteries </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">hide like night time walkers</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and there you are.</span><br />
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Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-81297392701537410952013-08-06T10:13:00.003-07:002013-08-06T10:13:47.550-07:00Four Faces<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Four faces of meaning</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The season’s intent</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The change in the stillness</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The Winter’s lament</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Fruit of Spring’s labours</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In Summer’s ferment </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The deep into darkness</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Of Autumn’s descent</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Days march like words</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">That we never meant</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">And the clock reflects back</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The time we misspent </span></div>
Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-13217099361288599512013-08-06T10:09:00.001-07:002013-08-06T10:09:32.003-07:00White on Light<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I found our secrets</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">like stones tossed on a pebbled beach</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">a tiny grain</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">on a sandy strand</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">or words lost</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and out of reach </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">tears in oceans</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">our breath in air</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">hanging still</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and stiller, still,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">than all the wind that is not there</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I found our secrets</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">black in night</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and white on light</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">a hunter hunched behind a blind</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">horizon when it's out of sight</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">sunrise</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">when the day's behind</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I found our secrets</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">salt in the sea</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">me in you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and you in me</span></div>
Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-34069122655204953162013-05-19T14:33:00.000-07:002013-05-19T14:35:43.677-07:00Blue Flannel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-22017973772337092682012-12-04T18:35:00.003-08:002012-12-04T19:32:10.729-08:00Baraka<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-33646197188509074532012-12-04T18:32:00.003-08:002012-12-04T19:32:54.310-08:00legs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">doctors have a way </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">(of handing over news like this)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">his eyes skewer me </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">(through and through)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">breach my skull and pin me to the air</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">yet somehow, the floor seems closer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">doctors have a way</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">(of lending you their steady gaze)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">as they grocery list how the world just ended</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">My first thought is that she will never dance again.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">.No. My first thought is that she will.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">Eyes pinned</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">I stay afloat in a sea of shock</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">and dare to watch his lips move</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">Disbelief </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">faith</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">sliced</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">by</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">same </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">sword</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">and I am several inches closer to the floor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">severed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">(like your spine)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">having legs makes no sense now</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">pinned to the air, like this</span></div>
Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-19313083095804124712012-12-04T18:30:00.002-08:002012-12-04T19:33:46.870-08:00The Hush<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">This is the hush of earth as she's spinning</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">Here's the lament of yesterday gone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">This is the sound of your dream as its dying</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">The death rattle rhythm that sings like a song</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">Here is the day feasting on darkness</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">Here is horizon swallowed by night</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">Here is the hammer that fell from the gods</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">never to strike with yesterday's might.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">Here is the ocean moving like quicksand</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">This is the Moon that worships the tide </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">Here are the waves that run from the shoreline</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">burying dreams with those who have died.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">Here is the mountain and here is the desert</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">One is too cold and one is too dry</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">Here is tomorrow and here is today</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">drops in the river</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">of time passing by </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Woke up from the flannel of my dreams</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">and everything was blue</span></div>
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yet the crush of sleep against my skin</div>
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had promised something new</div>
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the night was swollen, wet with wish</div>
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that rained the desert dry</div>
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sun loosed my footing from the earth</div>
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and turned me to the sky</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">What beauty born</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">rooting your days</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">to the dry</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">spreading your losses</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">in loosed winds</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">ugly </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rivers </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">in tongues</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">You arch across the day</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">from morning to moon</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">tempting a tremble</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">tempting a fall</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">much ado about decay</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">but what beauty born?</span></span></div>
Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-81820228546453936312012-07-14T14:10:00.000-07:002012-07-14T14:10:38.882-07:00Things<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sKo5dISaRcU/UAHgMifGzgI/AAAAAAAAWDc/RnK4rxsnpEk/s1600/black_cadillacs_by_olivia1511.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sKo5dISaRcU/UAHgMifGzgI/AAAAAAAAWDc/RnK4rxsnpEk/s200/black_cadillacs_by_olivia1511.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">One wounded bird</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">lost in the sky</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">sings the song</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">lullay la by</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">and echos back</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">to beating wings</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">broke beyond</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">the flying things</span> </div>Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-74704059603117453822012-07-14T14:09:00.000-07:002012-07-14T14:09:14.500-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Jeb6zXjIv5M/UAHf6lfENMI/AAAAAAAAWDU/DC0WQ_1Ckjs/s1600/black_cadillacs_by_olivia1511.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Jeb6zXjIv5M/UAHf6lfENMI/AAAAAAAAWDU/DC0WQ_1Ckjs/s200/black_cadillacs_by_olivia1511.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">One wounded bird</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">lost in the sky</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">sings the song</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">lullay la by</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and echos back</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">to beating wings</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">broke beyond</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">the flying things</span> </div></div>Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-63729393990447205392012-07-14T13:50:00.004-07:002012-07-14T13:50:49.178-07:00Sentinel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FI0JtUGP_bE/UAHbI2wud1I/AAAAAAAAWDA/YcQeT1rpBxg/s1600/standing+sentinel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="162" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FI0JtUGP_bE/UAHbI2wud1I/AAAAAAAAWDA/YcQeT1rpBxg/s400/standing+sentinel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
</div>Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0Victoria County, NS, Canada46.2486851 -60.85181699999998345.588641100000004 -61.309294499999986 46.9087291 -60.39433949999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394840219282054026.post-42083977961364562742012-07-14T13:00:00.000-07:002012-07-14T13:00:32.090-07:00The Tower<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ag_OuKzGcMU/UAHPtEvtZAI/AAAAAAAAWAo/wgOOKymFahU/s1600/ghost_IIII_by_olivia1511.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ag_OuKzGcMU/UAHPtEvtZAI/AAAAAAAAWAo/wgOOKymFahU/s1600/ghost_IIII_by_olivia1511.jpg" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">T</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">ear down the alter built with your wishes</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">let go the slaves who carried your dreams</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">fold up the day you spread like a blanket</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">smooth 'cross the morning</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">and ripped at night's seams</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">smile at your demons</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">who stare from the deepness</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">of still standing water drowning your praise</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">sever the kite strings</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">tied to your mourning</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">swallow the blood</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">then slide 'cross the blade</span> </div>Miriam Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479741400543267115noreply@blogger.com0