old cowboy movies – December 8

Posted on December 9, 2015 by landl30

12.8.2015

old cowboy movies

flow across my

screen

 

images of good

guys bad guys

shooting

 

at each other

and indians

n’ varmints

 

as if it was all

a play and

only

 

the few would

remain.

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For Matthew – December 7

Posted on December 8, 2015 by landl30

12.7.2015

I’m Luke Skywalker.

I’m Darth Vader.

He leapt off the

moving truck into

the arms of a

lifelong friend.

 

Golden boy swinging,

legs pointed high

like his heart and

aspirations.

 

Grown man reaching

reaching to speak a

word into the chaos.

 

Son of my youth

friend of my aging

truth teller and

seeker of his own.

 

Blessings on Forty.

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melting melting – December 5

Posted on December 5, 2015 by landl30

12.5.2015

mid-december in MInnesota

winter unwinding

snow disappearing

tufted grasses poking

through

 

is the white witch’s

time now over

and Aslan coming

soon?

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fixing things – December 4

Posted on December 5, 2015 by landl30

12.4 (11.23).2015 [fixing things]

fixing things

repairing

maintaining

 

the ongoing

ongoing

 

of house

car

self.

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out for the evening – December 3

Posted on December 4, 2015 by landl30

12.3.2015

she is out for the

evening

the house hollow.

 

furnace hum

clock tick

keep me

company.

 

when I quiet,

her presence

surrounds.

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limited vocabulary – December 2

Posted on December 3, 2015 by landl30

12.2 (11.16).2015

choosing words

limited vocabulary

 

to tell the secrets

of a heart

 

to view the sub strata

where images

 

fall away

and spirits dwell

 

realer than the

surface tensions

 

of quark and

atom.

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miss kitty snaps – November 29

Posted on December 1, 2015 by landl30

11.30.2015

miss kitty snaps

a paw mid purr

stretched across

the end of the

bed for the rub

and petting

appropriate to

her graciousness.

 

woe unto those

who misunderstand.

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for Jack…CSLewis – November 29

Posted on November 29, 2015 by landl30

11.29.2015

a lampost in a wood

shone in his

mind

 

until one day it

flowed out into

a book

 

and then books

and then

Narnia

 

which felt like I’d

seen it my whole

life.

 

I loved Jack

for the clarity

of his faith

and for the journey

he set me upon

following the

yearning

 

the echo within

of sound so pure

light so fine

realer than real

Plato essences

at the corners

every day.

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the back door stick – November 28

Posted on November 29, 2015 by landl30

11.28.2015

the back door stick

drops into suburban

place

 

blocking the sliding

glass door

from entries.

 

we commute to

the burbs they

once told me

 

where the

money

is

 

and where people

think they’re

safe

 

and leave their

doors un

locked.

 

so the back door

stick lives at

my house.

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emptied holy open time – November 27

Posted on November 28, 2015 by landl30

11.27.2015

quiet, calm, emptied

openness

follows the season.

 

holiday, holy day,

hollowed out by

movement day

 

hurried, pushed,

tiresome

until

 

stepped down from

and back from

and into

 

quiet time, calm

time, emptied

holy open

time

 

for something else

to enter in.

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