tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14622631801994428022024-02-02T02:18:02.593-05:00CLOUDBURST COUNCILOfficial Blog for the Cloudburst Council
being held this year 2018 at the Gell Center, Naples, New York.Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-56486627407592834162018-05-15T19:43:00.002-04:002018-05-15T19:43:34.143-04:00Not The Bright Banners by David Michael Nixon <div class="header" data-dojo-attach-event="onclick: headerClick" data-dojo-attach-point="headerNode" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 15px 10px 5px 20px; position: relative;">
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<b>Not The Bright Banners</b><div>
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Not the march, not even</div>
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the vigil, though it be</div>
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long, never the fast that</div>
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starves to save, but the long,</div>
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slow, steady walk, day by</div>
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day: cooking, washing the</div>
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dishes, the clothes, working,</div>
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shopping, holding dying</div>
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hands, speaking in pain as</div>
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both lives go, one before</div>
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the other. Not the bright</div>
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banners, but the plain flag</div>
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of the thinning hair bent</div>
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over the sick cat in</div>
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the grey hours before</div>
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clouded dawn. The same tasks</div>
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done so many times, though</div>
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you know death has undone</div>
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so many. Sometimes a</div>
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mild complaint, but mostly</div>
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the steady lifting of</div>
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lead straws, as though, by a</div>
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calm persistence, the long,</div>
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unwieldy weight of death</div>
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and suffering could be</div>
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lifted, as though one more,</div>
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one more small task could make</div>
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love out of a round of</div>
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endless duties, as though</div>
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fire would break loose from</div>
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one last glass of water</div>
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and free us all.</div>
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---David Michael Nixon</div>
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First appeared in <i>The Comstock Review</i> </div>
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Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-46678859322706052252018-05-15T18:49:00.001-04:002018-05-15T18:49:52.064-04:00Steve Tills, from LIFE SENTENCES 2018<div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
Steve Tills, from LIFE SENTENCES 2018</div>
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LS 05-07-2018</div>
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Logan represented the new formalist</div>
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conservative genre, perhaps The New</div>
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Agrarian, that came to be known</div>
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in contemporary times (pick a decade)</div>
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as “Reality TV Criticism and Poe.”</div>
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The lone wolf hardly perplexed anyone.</div>
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Dimestore heirs come and go throughout</div>
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industrial literary ages. The standard</div>
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deduction 24,000 in 2018. More than</div>
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half a year’s income for most folks</div>
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filing joint income returns. “Wasted”</div>
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on two Yeungling Black and Tans</div>
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not acceptable language for poetry</div>
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written by alcoholics of better station</div>
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and the University ensconced. For this</div>
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condition, his was the rose of France</div>
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or the pose of facs or the prose of mucks.</div>
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He made a living in advance of dying</div>
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to live some days. He stopped for nine</div>
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deer on the way to the nursing home</div>
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to see his dear father who was not</div>
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inebriated on just two beers or any.</div>
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The hospital lobby on the first floor</div>
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a fantasy of quiet shy of solitude</div>
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on the way down the contagious elevator.</div>
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Not quite right in the head seeing</div>
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in real time the several empty wheelchairs</div>
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awaiting father time and other time</div>
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in another fantasy of another day. The</div>
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first night to remember the man’s lovely</div>
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father lying fetal under Yankee blanket.</div>
Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-63884712673357893082018-05-15T14:31:00.003-04:002018-05-15T14:31:43.038-04:00Cloudburst Poems by Scott Williams<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc387673838"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc387956337"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc387673838;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times;">The Kings Garden</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc387673838;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc387956337;"></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Once there was a king whose daughter was beautiful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He loved her very deeply and he wished to have more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So he cut her into pieces, and each was an astonishing
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Still he wished more and he cut those pieces into pieces, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and again each was a stunning girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He loved these so, that he cut the pieces of the pieces into
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and he loved each of the pieces of the pieces of the pieces
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When he was all done, with love he threw all the scattered
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">into the air so very high that when they fell to earth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rainbowed flowers
bloomed and cantored at his feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Appeared
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peach Mag</i> (2016) under a different
titl</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">e<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt;">I can hear its ring for hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt;">Against physics? Good!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Continuation” appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bonvibre Haiku</i> (CWP Press 2017)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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poems by Scott WilliamsAlan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-50501328278989735372018-05-15T14:11:00.001-04:002018-05-15T14:11:04.742-04:00Or, at the Gell Center, before west-facing hill, La Resolana, poem by John Roche<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">La Resolana<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">The sun shining on
everything and everybody is seeing everything as it is at the same time</span></i><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">—
O’odham elder quoted by Tomás Atencio in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Resolana:
Emerging Chicano Dialogues <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">on Community and
Globalization</span></i><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">
(2009)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">Resolute <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">or reconciled to
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">we seek<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">year after year<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">La Resolana<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">the place where
the sun shines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">the south-facing
wall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">where, in
northern New Mexico <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">(El Norteño)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">villagers gather
to talk out issues<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">Or, at the Gell
Center, before west-facing hill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">usually bathed by
spring rains<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">or walking
streams full of frogspawn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">hoping something
will jell besides tadpoles and mosquitoes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">our poems so much
flotsam and jetsam <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there to speak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">send forth on the
pollen-laden breeze<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">The only way we
pay our rent (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">resolutus</i>) on this
planet, dissolve <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">the impediments
blocking acequias’ lifewater, keeping <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">each man or woman
hidden from the other, the secrets <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">poisoning the
polis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">must be voiced,
somehow antidote found<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">uranium tailings
and sacred objects reburied<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">the fracking
stopped<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">No poem stopped
at the Border<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-85422228257928091402018-05-14T13:52:00.001-04:002018-05-14T13:52:27.266-04:00PROGRAM CLOUDBURST 2018<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fri. May 18, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Early Bird Registration (enjoy the site)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lodge): John Berry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:15-3:00 <b>Nature
Walk: haiku moments: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Michael
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(an outdoor ramble
of roadside, fields and woods at Gell Center)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3:00-6:00
Registration ongoing in Main Lodge</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3:30-4:30 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beginning Poetry Circle (one poem from each
poet)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4:30-4:40
Poetry reading: Alan Casline</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4:40-4:50
Poetry reading: Stephen Lewandowski<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4:50-5:00<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: John Roche<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5:00-6:30
Light Dinner Served </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6:30-6:40
Poetry reading: Therese Broderick</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6:40-6:50
Poetry reading: Charlie Rossiter</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6:50-7:00
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Poetry
reading: Martha Treicher</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7:00-7:10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry reading: ryki zuckerman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7:10-7:20 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry reading: Nick Eckerson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7:20-8:20
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Panel:
Retracing Our Steps</b> (John Roche, Scott Williams, Celeste Lawson) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8:20-8:35
<b>Cloudburst</b> thoughts and evening
wrap-up: Martha Deed and ryki zuckerman <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8:35-8:45<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Friday Night Closing Ceremony: Marge
Merrill <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8:45 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Party </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Sat. May 19, 2018</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 8:30 Breakfast
Served </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Breakfast will be continuously served.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9:20-9:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturday Opening Ceremony: Alan
Casline <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9:30-10:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Remembering
Friends, Heroes, Legends </b>(Poetry Round-Robin)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sharing poems written
by departed friends, admired and historic poets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bring some poems of
beforementioned to share. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:30-10:40<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: Bob McDonough<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:40-10:50<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: Michael Czarnecki <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:50-11:00<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jane Sadowsky</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11:00-11:10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gwen Zimmerman</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11:10-11:20<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martha Deed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11:20-11:30 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Berry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11:30-11:40<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Break</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11:40-11:50<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Break<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11:50-12:50 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Panel: Migration, Immigration and Language</b>
(Tamar Samuel-Siegel, Therese Broderick,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Judith Kerman, Steve Tills)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12:50 -1:00<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: Mark O’Brien<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1:00-1:10 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: Judith Kerman</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 1:15 Lunch Served </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Open Time 1:15 – 4:00</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tour in Finger Lakes
Watershed</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> with Steve
Lewandowski (optional)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Steven Lewandowski will
lead an expedition <span style="background: white;">to Site of Seneca
Emergence or a place closer depending on weather</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Workshop: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For those not on exploration in the same time
slot workshop in the main lodge (optional)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A Simple Handmade Poetry Mini-Booklet </b>led by ryki zimmerman
(sign-up with ryki)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keeping Still: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Find a spot and stop. Sit still for at least 15
min. but do not check the time (optional)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4:00-4:40<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Panel:
Ecstatic Poets</b> with Martin Willitts, Jr. and Linda Griggs </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4:40-4:50<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: Tom Nicotera <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4:50-5:00<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: Leah Zazulyer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5:00-5:10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: Celeste Lawson <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5:10-5:20<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: Marge Merrill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5:20-5:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David Landrey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5:30-5:40:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Helen Ruggieri<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5:40-5:50:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patrica Tansey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5:50-6:00 Poetry
Reading: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dwain Wilder</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7:00-7:10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: Scott Williams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7:10-7:20<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: Steve Tills<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7:20-7:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: Michele Brown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7:30-7:40<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: David Michael Nixon
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7:40-7:50<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leslie Gerber<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7:50-8:00<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maril Nowak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8:00-8:10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tamar Samuel-Siegel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturday Closing Ceremony: Charlie Rossiter
and Tom Nicotera</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:20- 12:00 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Party</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12:00-? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Midnight open mic until we run out of poems</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Sunday May 20, 2018</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:20-10:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sunday
Opening Ceremony: Therese Broderick<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fair<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:30-10:40<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stephen Baraban<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:40-10:50<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry Reading: Martin Willitts, Jr. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11:00-11:10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Break</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11:10-12:10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <b>Looking Outward (</b>Michael
Czarnecki, David Landrey, Gwen Zimmerman, Helen Ruggieri)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12:10–1:00 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further: Round-Robin of Poetry. (Might
be time for second poem)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-66574887229030146212018-05-14T13:47:00.002-04:002018-05-14T13:47:35.054-04:00cloudburst poem by Martin Willitts, Jr.<table border="0" cellpadding="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 1158px;">
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<u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tender Moments<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is much to love in
this world,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and much I’ve never
seen, but can guess<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">easily has to be
spectacular —<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">between two large stones
and nowhere else,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">opening green mouths
like fledglings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">these tongues of
blue-purple violets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The news occupies itself
with danger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and terrible weather and
leaders lying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">straight-faced. You can
have all of that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A robin touches down,
hopping across<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the grass, not afraid of
me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is a tender moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you care to look for
these moments,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sense a blush of
sunrise; lilacs odors;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rain falling just
enough, not more,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">not less; a crow cocking
its head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">suspicious of the
silence; or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">violets returning every
year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>---<b><span style="background: #E1EFF7; color: #202020; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Martin Willitts, Jr</span></b><span style="background: #E1EFF7; color: #202020; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-65162575156082437202018-05-13T14:21:00.006-04:002018-05-13T14:21:54.615-04:00Celeste Lawson On Being Certain<br />
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<u>On Being Certain<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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When traveling the uncertain path<o:p></o:p></div>
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of being absolutely certain<o:p></o:p></div>
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of just about everything<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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It is certainly likely that you will encounter<o:p></o:p></div>
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a moment of uncertainty<o:p></o:p></div>
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that is certainly a moment un-reconciled <o:p></o:p></div>
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Certain to create doubt on all<o:p></o:p></div>
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that you were certain about<o:p></o:p></div>
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before<o:p></o:p></div>
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You will stand at the threshold<o:p></o:p></div>
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of all your uncertainties<o:p></o:p></div>
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that are certainly known now<o:p></o:p></div>
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and try to be resolute in your life of resolutions<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet to be resolved<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Celeste
Lawson<o:p></o:p></div>
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2001 ©<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-26463264531192210642018-05-13T14:13:00.004-04:002018-05-13T14:13:48.438-04:00Poem of Resoluteness by Mark O'Brien<br />
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">"His
quiet nature was blown about enough for silence."</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Meanwhile,
in the Outback of Beyond:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Slowly
salvaging the daylight hours </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">as the
night acquires October</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">you
battle this unexpected censure </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">struggle
to come once more out of the anyhow </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">throwing
punches at the wind.</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">With no
recent measure of a quiet cautionary tale </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">you begin
to worry the bones and throw the teeth.</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Perhaps
you didn't notice this when you first stepped in.</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Maybe you
thought, it will surely come back </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">for all
the silent reasons after only a quiet and hallowed time.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Maybe,
you didn't want to know</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">didn't
care to see across the deep of idleness</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">where
sorrows resolve in the wide eternity </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">of the
present on your hands.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">But bleak
hearts and devious fools of idleness </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">can
become soldiers of the dark</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">bolder
and bleaker</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">tendering
no information</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">taking no
messages.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">It is not
for want of banging your head </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">against
the windy and the ragged after all.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Not for
want of leering and looming</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">buffeted
by the beyond.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">But
slowly, slowly, without your knowing </span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">idleness
savages the daylight hours</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">as the
Prince of Night gathers October.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In the
end finally, you must always remember</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">there is
the Bean-S</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">ì</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">dhe
after all.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Graced
and serene, pale and contrasting in the night</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">her eyes
red from centuries of crying</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">and
wringing her hands, mourning at your idleness.</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">She was
ever washing your poetry bones, stroking them lovingly</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">cleansing
their limbs 'till they were shriven.</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<br /></div>
<div class="Body1">
<br /></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Then,
nightly she paced the hills of your dreams and sorrows with unearthly care</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Weeping,
wailing, clasping her hands, and beating her breasts.</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Piercing
the night, her notes rise and fall with the years</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">begging
you to resolve your writers block!</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<br /></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">begging
you to come back to the anyhow once more</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">to the
wide eternity of the present on your hands</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">before
your bleak heart becomes a soldier </span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">a soldier
to the Dark of October.</span></div>
<div class="Body1">
<br /></div>
<div class="Body1">
<br /></div>
---Mark O'BrienAlan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-78191562707987047422018-05-13T13:59:00.002-04:002018-05-13T14:09:12.490-04:00Stephen Lewandowski Poems Before CLOUDBURST 2018<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">BEHIND
MCDONALDS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Over
ten billion House sparrows served<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At noon, around the cars
in the back parking lot <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">flutters a flock of
evolved sparrows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They use a small fleet of
parked grocery carts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">and dumpsters as their
clubhouse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">After all, why hunt when
you can served?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The sparrows are
industriously picking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">flying bugs off the
grills of the parked cars,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">venturing as far under
the hood as the radiator<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">where the bugs are not
only thick but toasted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In such an ecological
niche, their exposure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">to predators like
rough-legged hawk hovering overhead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">is minimal, and with new
cars arriving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the lunch is served fast
and hot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> --Stephen
Lewandowski<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />
<br />
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Y’KNOW<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It may be that all
intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">like all cognition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">like all creation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">gets fuzzy out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">towards its edges<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">y’know like Albert
Einstein<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">before conditioning
rinses.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> --Stephen Lewandowski</span></div>
<br />
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHERE
WE CAME OUT OF THE GROUND<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hopping from stone to
stone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">clinging to crumbling
shale banks, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">washed in cool air draining
from the crevice,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">big hemlocks skinned and
polished<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">in their tumbling descent
through gravel,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">exposing whorl and gnarl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hepatica, trillium (still
shut), bloodroot,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dutchman’s breeches and a
fern new<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">to me, with elongated leaves
bearing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">root tips seeking a hold
in shale wall niche.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bluets and arbutus, we
scramble<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">on all fours nearly
straight up, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">don’t look down, on a
final burst <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">of nervous energy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Walking back from the top<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">on roads, the long way
around,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">through woods’ understory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">white with toothwort
retracing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">a difficult birth
struggling up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">out of the womb, walking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">away
in sun. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> ---Stephen Lewandowski</span></div>
<br />Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-35904164483953777182018-05-13T13:49:00.000-04:002018-05-13T13:50:26.888-04:00Poem: her insignificance in the great scheme of things was only matched by his inflated presumption of his own greatness for CLOUDBURST COUNCIL 2018 ryki zuckerman<br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">her insignificance in
the great scheme of things</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was only matched by his
inflated presumption of his own greatness</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">his favorite four letter
words are <i>gold</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and <i>golf</i> and <i>fake</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">while mine are <i>give</i> and <i>find</i> and <i>love</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">his preferred three
letter words are <i>oil </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and <i>gas</i> and <i>gun</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">while mine are <i>all</i> and <i>sky</i> and <i>fun.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">his only pronoun
is <i>me</i>, and sometimes <i>he</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">while i lean
towards <i>we </i>and <i>she.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">too often monosyllabic
or incoherent,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">he has difficulty
chewing his words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and spits them out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">in little chunks of
vitriol<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and streams of vileness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">it's getting late.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">before we get beyond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">to where we can't turn
back,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">let's go for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ready for a duel –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">my thesaurus is packed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--ryki zuckerman <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-75672527831963622662018-05-13T13:29:00.004-04:002018-05-13T13:32:58.264-04:00THE OTHER SIDE from DAVID LANDREY<br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 80%;">The Other Side</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">——for
Kelly Bucheger and What Would Mingus Do?</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">—and for
Fred Whitehead</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">The world
ended a long time ago</span></i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">back when
the Universe exploded, what they call the Big Bang</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">we’re all
just ghosts, part of the afterglow</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">slow
cooling embers thrown out by that immense bonfire</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">—</span></i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">John Roche in<i> The Joe Poems</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">We hear
them far and</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">seeking us
and we them</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">a barrier</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>translucent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>transcendent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">between</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>them and us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">shimmers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shivers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>shakes</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">our vision
leading us</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">or far
within</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">our side
or theirs</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">as the
sounds</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>theirs and ours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">assemble
and hover</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">both sides
singing until</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">we seem to
know … … …</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">And they
come to the edge</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">And we
seek without fear</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">And we
hear from beyond</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">And
respond deep within</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>and we reach on through<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;">the other
side.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 80%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>---David Landrey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Meditations on The
Other Side (beginnings)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">The other side of what?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>inside
or out?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Do we (should we) break on through to it? [*
below]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Or do we conjure it, invite it to break through
to us?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Is it a place of possible comfort?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a
place to fear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Can
it be (must it be?) both?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Can we have one without the other?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ah—the “other”: other than us, alien?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>or
an entity missing from us, not a place?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>or
an energy field—to tap into which is to feel and to know?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Is it dimensional? Or so at once parallel and interwoven
with “our side” as to <u>be</u> us? Yet it is/has been removed from our field,
perhaps by us—or has/is it? Can it be us and not us at once?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">With what, if any, obligation are we than left?
[* above]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If
we or “it” break through, what then? Can we (ought we) lead “others” (as in
Plato’s cave dwellers) to/through it? Surely we must dissolve any barrier again
and again, as in the taking/making of any sacrament; and as we do, how—if at
all—do we sustain our link to “<u>others</u>” and with what likely results?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
what posture do we hold ourselves? Independence? Obeisance? What posture in
relation to OTHER? OTHERS?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
reach for/allow sounds: voices, rhythms, cries …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
hope to render them in music and words or in various sculpted forms, in which
acts we have reached the Other Side or perhaps have obviated any need to do so
or perhaps have discovered that there is only one side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
public role of art (I see it daily at performance/readings), before it becomes
embalmed, institutionalized, has never been more necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-82513630311333300682018-05-13T13:10:00.000-04:002018-05-13T13:20:56.991-04:00Break-Through Means Resolution: Martha Treicher, Gwen Zimmerman, Marge Merrill <br />
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Is there a difference<br />
between Resoluteness<br />
and Patience?<br />
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Sometimes there is<br />
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <b>A Poem of Break-through</b></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A shift of consciousness<br />
an open heart<br />
Love and mystery abounds<br />
in this magical world<br />
Eyes open to a greater reality<br />
that lies within<br />
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Let’s take a walk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">embrace
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">draw
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">mend
socks <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">purl
too<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">stir
walnuts into oatmeal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">be
divorced from pen and ink<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it is time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">until
snowdrops<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">until
migrations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">until
the first Saturday in May<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you feel <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">the
slip of time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">gathering
edges<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">merging<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">bursting
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your fingers quicken <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the sun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to cultivate pretty colors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the blank paper garden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-34181369901758687572018-05-13T12:41:00.000-04:002018-05-13T13:23:13.895-04:00May 2018 Going to CLOUDBURST COUNCIL<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">A few days to go until Cloudburst. I am hoping to generate some content for the Cloudburst Blog before the event</span><br />
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Our theme is <i>Break-Through </i>and the prompt is <i>Resoluteness</i></div>
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<i>Break-though </i>is at least on the surface comprehensive as a social movement or whatever ( a trigger to experience)</div>
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The meaning for <i>Resoluteness </i>is more difficult for me. This does not have to be a new poem but if you can send me a poem and/or thoughts, I'll get them posted.</div>
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success is showing up</div>
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secret of longevity getting out of bed in the morning</div>
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----- Alan Casline</div>
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I notice the lady with the open ledger book and open check
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“It’s locked, You won’t get in there. They won’t open till
nine” she says.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I never figure on that. It’s not even like I’m here on an
important errand,” looking at my watch. There’s at least ten minutes till nine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“ I need to get a bank certified check. It’s not even for
me, it’s for my employer,” she offers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I’m here to pick up some dollar coins for a poetry prize. The
prize is for reciting poems from memory. “<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Children?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“No adults. I belong to a poetry group in Voorheesville.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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She began reciting in a slightly softer voice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I wandered lonely as
a cloud<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That floats on high
o’er vales and hills,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When all at once I saw
a crowd,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A host, of golden
daffodils…<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Woodsworth, my favorite,” she smiled.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Do you think they still have children memorize poems in
school?”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>she asked me<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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“Probably not. I don’t think my own kids ever had to.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“A pity.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yes, when you memorize a poem it stays with you forever, or
even if you forget, something will stir it up again and it surfaces.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She nodded her head
in understanding.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Even when it is forgotten if you start reading the poem
again, the words come back and your eyes can leave the page as you continue in
the memory of having learned the poem by heart.” <br />
She paused in thought, then went on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Songs are interesting. Songs are like that too. My father
had blood clots in his brain and a stroke when he was forty-eight. He lost all
ability to speak but he could still sing. He lived twelve more years, with only
the ability to sing the songs he had learned to communicate.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Wow,” I said. “It’s like the sit-com where they have the
special singing episode and everyone sings in a musical style but the plot and
story go on as normal. That was your father, in his own singing musical
episode, except his went on for twelve years.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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She laughed, as the bank employee came to open the door, a
little early, and let us in.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>Alan Casline<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-32316450043134648622017-05-23T07:48:00.005-04:002017-05-23T07:48:57.837-04:00CLOUDBURST COUNCIL 2017 Marge Merrill In Summation<div class="Standard">
Cloudburst 2017 — In Summation<o:p></o:p></div>
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A nine hour closing ceremony?
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<i> Oscar India Victor Echo Yankee !</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Somewhere between two coasts<o:p></o:p></div>
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god is throwing a party<o:p></o:p></div>
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there is <i>fuck you</i> in the air<o:p></o:p></div>
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and sweet wine in the snow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The white queen gossips<o:p></o:p></div>
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about valley girls waking up alone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The beats shotgunning beer<o:p></o:p></div>
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argue there is no future only an infinity of options.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Squirming facts eavesdrops.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>My poems are not poems<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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it was the shadow we thought shouldn't be.<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Mark Twain interrupts, <i>is there take out from Mockba?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Clark, Dorn, Henry Miller and other shades<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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speak of<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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letting go<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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making the way.<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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And the white queen, who is also a former social worker,<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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talks about children playing in the Trinotite sand,<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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little girls with soiled bandages<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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other children who dare in Anatolia.<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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And the marmalade acolyte shouts, <i>Dear Lord,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>don't call Social Services about this!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The Gunslinger takes a long pull from the bottle of Jameson's<o:p></o:p></div>
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and gestures wildly about the room with his 44,<o:p></o:p></div>
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settles his glare upon Horse asks, <i>What do you think?</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Whale</i> …..............(drags out the word for a full
minute and the Dahlai Lama joins in) finally says<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>there is a conspiracy of dust and pissed off elephants.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Women are the first environment<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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honor the sacred directions<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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always<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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sisters<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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even as just another American woman walking alone.<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Charles Olsen asks, c<i>an I hunger for protein and justice?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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You guys are nothing but slaves of appearances<i> </i>savages
the acolyte<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>everyone in this country is a sort of Johnny Carson!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Are there any more Pacman Pistachios?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I'm married to the flywheels and gears.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coyote always gets into trouble,<o:p></o:p></div>
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gambols with the dogs of the house.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Muses have emerged from the dark<o:p></o:p></div>
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from the chaos<o:p></o:p></div>
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yeah, in a<o:p></o:p></div>
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big<o:p></o:p></div>
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god<o:p></o:p></div>
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damned<o:p></o:p></div>
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car.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Erotic sweet potatoes.
Who knew?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is all balder and dash<o:p></o:p></div>
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ancient like Langston Hughes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Oh, Shiva, my darling, which super hero are you?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Somebody feed the snakes!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The more ways out the harder to plan your escape<o:p></o:p></div>
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Take the beaten path to old man Slates still.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fox, coyote, elk, buffalo and the Lakota elder<o:p></o:p></div>
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pay no attention to the stoned deer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Franco likes Ike<o:p></o:p></div>
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something the color of puma in Minnesota<o:p></o:p></div>
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the righteous dude<o:p></o:p></div>
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with the attitude<o:p></o:p></div>
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tries the limits of sarcasm, delights cartoonists,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Joe recites warm underbellies<o:p></o:p></div>
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chickens, shit,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and make your own scratch.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The shades toast dead ed with coffee cups; happy birthday!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We may gain the secrets<o:p></o:p></div>
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what are your favorite things?<o:p></o:p></div>
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In my hand a snack I'd never seen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chief Wahoo opines<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>everyone looks better in a daisy necklace.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Take those selfies naked</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Marge Merrill<o:p></o:p></div>
Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-40889506494527757052017-05-13T13:04:00.003-04:002017-05-17T15:08:20.091-04:00Program for Cloudburst Council 2017<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">PROGRAM CLOUDBURST 2017 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fri. May 19, 2017</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">noon-2:00
Early Bird Registration (enjoy the site)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">2:00-2:10 Opening Ceremony (meet at entrance to
lodge): Alan Casline<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">2:15-3:00 <b>Nature
Walk: haiku moments: </b>Michael
Czarnecki</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">
(an outdoor ramble
of roadside, fields and woods at Gell Center)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">3:00-6:00
Registration ongoing in Main Lodge</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">3:30-4:30 Beginning Poetry Circle (one poem from each
poet)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:30-4:40
Poetry reading: Martha Treichler</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:40-4:50
Poetry reading: Therese Broderick </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">5:00-6:30
Light Dinner Served (pasta, bread, green salad)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">6:30-6:40
Poetry reading: Kathy Tussing</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">6:40-6:50
Poetry reading: Adam Tedesco</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">6:50-7:00
Poetry
reading: Michael Czarnecki</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">7:00-7:10 Poetry reading: John Roche <b> </b> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">7:10-8:10
Panel: <b>Conflict
of Interest: (</b>Nick Eckerson, Paulette Swartzfager, Dwain Wilder)<b>)
</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">8:10-8:30
<b>Cloudburst</b> thoughts and evening
wrap-up: Stephen Lewandowski<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">8:30-8:40 Friday Night Closing Ceremony: Charlie
Rossiter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">8:40 Party </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Sat. May 20, 2017</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 8:30 Breakfast
Served (cereal, fruit, bagels, eggs, etc.)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Breakfast will be continuously served.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">9:20-9:30 Saturday Opening Ceremony: Alifair
Skebe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">9:30-10:30 <b>Remembering
Friends, Heroes, Legends </b>(Poetry Round-Robin)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Sharing poetry of
departed friends, admired and historic poets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Bring some poems of beforementioned
to share. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:30-10:40 Poetry Reading: Nick Eckerson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:40-10:50 Poetry Reading: Tom Nicotera</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:50-11:00 Poetry Reading: Ashley Messer</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">11:00-11:10 Poetry Reading: Anna Kreienberg</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">11:10-11:20 Poetry Reading: Jane Sadowski
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">11:20-12:00 Break<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">12:00-12:30 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Panel: <b>Ed Dorn:</b> (Alan Casline, Michael Peters,
Alifair Skebe)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">12:30-12:40 Poetry Reading: Steve Tills
<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">12:40-12:50
Poetry Reading: Charlie Rossiter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">12:50
-1:00
Poetry Reading: Pat Tansey</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 1:00 Lunch Served
(cold sandwiches bag lunch)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Open Time 1:00 –
3:45</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tour in Finger Lakes
Watershed</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> with Steve
Lewandowski (optional)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Steven Lewandowski will
lead an expedition <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">to Canadice Lake or a
place closer depending on weather</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Workshop: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">For those not on exploration in the same time
slot workshop in the main lodge (optional)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Therese Broderick will be
doing a Workshop on different ways to create handbound books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Materials will be supplied. Martin Willitts, Jr. will also show his way of bookbinding.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Keeping Still: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Find a spot and stop. Sit still for at least 15
min. but do not check the time (optional)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:00-4:10 Poetry
Reading: ryki zuckerman</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:10-4:20
Poetry Reading: Martin Willitts,Jr.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:20-4:30 Poetry Reading: Linda Griggs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:30-4:40 Poetry Reading: Bob McDonough<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:40-5:00 Poetry Reading: Dwain Wilder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">5:00 -5:50 Panel <b>– Darkness: </b>(David Landrey, Stephen Baraban, John Roche)<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">5:50-6:00 Poetry
Reading: Paulette Swartzfager</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">6:00-7:00 Dinner <b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">7:00-7:10 Poetry Reading: Marge Merrill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">7:10-7:20 Poetry Reading: Stephen Baraban<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">7:20-7:30 Poetry Reading: Mark O’Brien<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">7:30-7:40 Poetry Reading: Maril Nowak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">7:40-7:50 Poetry Reading: Alifair Skebe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">7:50-8:00 Poetry Reading: Michael Peters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 8:00-10:00 Open Mic hosted by John Roche (by sign-up
)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Bring a poem about conflict to read as part of
your open mic presentation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10-10:10 Wrap-up John Roche<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:15 Saturday Closing Ceremony: Therese Broderick</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 10:20- 12:00 Campfire Party</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">12:00-? Midnight open mic until we run out of poems</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Sunday May 21,
2017</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">9:30-11:00 Brunch (like Saturday Breakfast )</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:15 Sunday Opening Ceremony: Mark
O’Brien and Gail Allen O’Brien <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">9:30-11.00 Trade Fair and Free Fair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:30-10:40 Poetry Reading: Alan Casline<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:40-10:50 Poetry Reading: Stephen Lewandowski<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:50-11:00 Poetry Reading: David Landrey</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-68584543321875120882017-04-14T12:46:00.001-04:002017-04-14T12:46:22.282-04:00BATTLES AT O.K. POETRY CORRAL <div class="MsoNormal">
This was first a poem and then a survey of about 30 poets to
get their opinions. I’ll throw this out as a bone to chew on. I was intereted in who would be the most original poet. A couple of these debates have been ongoing in my poetic life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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BATTLES
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rhyming vs
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pre-20<sup>th</sup>
century vs 20<sup>th</sup> century<o:p></o:p></div>
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outsider vs
establishment<o:p></o:p></div>
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light vs
serious, dark<o:p></o:p></div>
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confessional vs
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lazy vs
worked on<o:p></o:p></div>
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spontaneous vs
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contemporary 20<sup>th</sup> century vs
little knowledge contemporary 20<sup>th</sup> century<o:p></o:p></div>
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nature vs
hate nature poems<o:p></o:p></div>
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domestic vs
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protest vs
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poetry vs poetry<o:p></o:p></div>
Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-82806007817502944472017-03-25T10:13:00.000-04:002017-03-25T10:26:49.499-04:00CLOUDBURST 2017 ON A DAY OF MELTING Last snowfall here in the Normanskill watershed is slowly melting with temperatures fluxuating from just above to just below freezing for the next few days. My thoughts are to the apple blossoms on the hillside at the Gell Center. CLOUDBURST 2017 is budding with many people already indicating they will be returning. A number of new poets had signed on as well. The Blog here is open for business so please send any submissions you want to pass on and I'll try and get them posted right up.<br />
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On Saturday May 14,
2016 at CLOUDBURST COUNCIL as a group around the table we threw our I Ching
Hexagrams which were #59 (Dispersion) changing into #6 (Conflict). At my first glance, I was uneasy over
CONFLICT being a touchstone for our continuing work at the Council, in poetry
and beyond. I did know the changing nature of the Tao and the I Ching meant the
hexagram CONFLICT was not so much about conflict as it was the forces in
movement that allowed conflict. Conflict as a theme for our gathering has some background via national politics and cultural clash. The hexagram has two pieces (the
tri-grams) that make it up. These are on top The Creative, Heaven and on bottom
The Abysmal, Water. These two halves move away from each other and this the
I-Ching says gives “rise to the idea of conflict”. Notice not like a Cloudburst
where forces crash together but “Conflict develops when one feels to be in the
right.” Back to the two tri-grams that make up the hexagram CONFLICT, Creative
is strength and the Abysmal is danger, guile. The indication of conflict is the
combination in a person of deep cunning and fixed determination. Here is starts
to feel like current events “To carry on the conflict to the bitter end has
evil effects even when one is in the right, because the enmity is then
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In my own book <b>64 Changes</b>, I can see what I drew out
of the day I threw the coins and that particular poem for hexagram #6 got
written. <i>the spiritual trends/of individuals harmonize. </i>The CLOUDBURST
COUNCIL was born out of conflict if everyone remembers the first Friday night
at the Gell Center. Some poetic conflicts might never end but I do think this
harmonizing of spirit that very soon at the first Council and over the years of
getting to know each other has occurred. To everyone’s credit and to our future
enjoyments.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The causes of Conflict are latent in the opposing tendencies
of two different forces. The I-Ching
commentary says to avoid conflict you have to catch it before it starts, in the
beginning. “If rights and duties are exactly defined, or if, in a group, the
spiritual trends of the individuals harmonize, the cause of conflict is removed
in advance.” So practically, in organizing CLOUDBURST COUNCIL are
there any potential conflicts that need to be addressed in the beginning?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-12928952871013829552016-05-23T14:19:00.004-04:002016-05-23T14:25:55.321-04:00A Community Poem by Cloudburst Council poets, 2016 <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">A
Community Poem by Cloudburst Council poets, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">Like swirling leaves, memories keep dancing back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">My
father picks me up, tells me my mother and new brother are up in the high hospital
windows. I study each one but can’t find her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">I
stand by the huge, steaming locomotive, the B&N Yankee, restrained by arms
intent on saving a three-year-old me, and I am outraged at salvation—and still
am.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">I
am three, sister Pat still a baby, and Kathy not yet born, when we must move
out of our tiny apartment and into Aunt May’s house. I get to ride there with
Aunt Margie and Uncle Frank and hold this memory for my younger sisters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">My
braids too tight, my new seersucker sundress making crinkles on my legs, we
finally arrive at Cousin Henry’s house with shoes neither on my feet nor in our
1948 Hudson. From her wheelchair, Henry’s girl offers me the shoes on her feet,
and I think <b>not</b>! I’d rather go
barefoot, but I’ve shamed my mother. Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">Walking
down the street, dressed in my best and my hand in my daddy’s, I am going to have
my picture taken to celebrate turning three. I am feeling beautiful and loved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">Sitting
on a pinto pony, I am in cowboy boots and western hat, having my photograph
taken.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">Standing
behind the garage wall, I step out into a sharp wind that bites my face. I step
back behind the wall, and the wind stops. I have mastered this piece of my
universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">I
eat sweets from a crinkly white bag on the back ledge behind my seat in our
friends’ 1940s automobile.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">Watching
the Dodgers with my father in 1955, he makes me think my team has won though he
knows about all of their losses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">One
Christmas in Ohio, I am sitting in a brown plastic laundry basket next to the
Christmas tree.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">I
am in first grade, at recess, and I and my friends sit in white and purple
clover blossoms, catching honeybees and eating their flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">We
kids spend the day at the beach collecting stones. I pick the tiny, shiny,
sparkly, pretty-colored ones. Less discerning, my siblings choose larger ones,
filling the front passenger floor of our Studebaker and leaving no place for
Mom’s feet. Dad refuses to move until we kids jettison our ballast, returning
our carefully chosen treasures to the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">A
hurricane swept up the East Coast in my first year of life and as my mother recalled the coffins piled
in the Boston streets during the flu epidemic of 1918. So I saw the tree
leaning against the three-story porches of the Dorchester house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
War is over—let’s go to NYC to see the parade—gas rations—shoe rations too—and
I unhappy with my new Buster Browns—(preferred Mary Janes™ which were refused)
so I tossed them out the window 1x1 and for good measure my baby brother’s
too—for 17 miles along Route 9-W on the way home.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-82359307284349180742016-05-11T20:42:00.002-04:002016-05-11T21:00:46.865-04:00John Berry Poem for CLOUDBURST COUNCIL <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fun at the Quinneys</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shawn’s younger brother</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">would eat a whole stick of butter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bite it and chew it like candy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I watched him one day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">It was disgusting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">And though I wasn’t there (thank God)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">it was reported he once had a bad case of poison ivy</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">All over</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> his body and in his itch and frustration</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">he smashed his penis with the lid of the toilet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">and had to have stitches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I never asked if it helped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">And I once volunteered to become a human ramp</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">while sledding one day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Me and Fat Tim side by side on the ground</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">at the end of the hump we’d been jumping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">My head by Tim’s feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shawn at the top of the hill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sounded like fun until I saw Shawn careening</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">a bit off the track, the blade of the runner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">heading straight for my neck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Good thing I looked when I did</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">but I couldn’t help punching the crap out of Shawn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">who couldn’t stop laughing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t remember what happened</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">to Fat Tim’s ankles.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ---John Berry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">John
Berry’s work has been published in Vox Poetica, The Yellow Chair Review,
Disorder (a Red Dashboard publication) The Green Silk Journal, Crow Hollow 19
and The Good News Paper. His first book
of poems, Wobbly Man was published in the Spring of 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
self-taught woodworker, carpentry contractor and promoter of all things poetry,
he writes and works from his Winchester Virginia home with his beloved wife
Brenda and their two yorkies, Molly and
Lily. John hosts the Shenandoah Poetry
Alliance Open Mic on the second Wednesdays of every month at the Handley
Library in Winchester Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
lover of the unexplored byway or patch of woods never walked, John has
nonetheless remained a native Virginian, finding variety and freshness even in
the familiar if one is unafraid to look closely at their surroundings and
especially at himself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-47390017370825531332016-05-11T13:35:00.000-04:002016-05-11T13:45:38.347-04:00Blues Poems by Helen Ruggieri<div class="MsoNormal">
BLUE RIFF <o:p></o:p></div>
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Blue eyes
turn the world into a Hollywood Pool <o:p></o:p></div>
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a great
ball in the void of space<o:p></o:p></div>
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they turn
the world into a lost sky <o:p></o:p></div>
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chicory
trapped along the interstate<o:p></o:p></div>
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delphiniums
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a sad place
in a haze of blue smoke<o:p></o:p></div>
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where
broken down jazz singers<o:p></o:p></div>
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sing the
blues so we may weep <o:p></o:p></div>
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unhurt<o:p></o:p></div>
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BLUE
ANALOGIES</div>
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antlers
of the white tailed deer</div>
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have
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growing
under the sea</div>
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human
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fish scales and are</div>
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composed
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a
newborn’s blue cast eyes</div>
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as
the blind eyes of the old </div>
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plants
like music too</div>
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children outdo themselves</div>
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when
expected to </div>
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subatomic
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agitated
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ancient
oak groves seethe</div>
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with
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ONCE IN A BLUE MOON<o:p></o:p></div>
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we
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it
is August and I’m gathering<o:p></o:p></div>
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lunaria
seed, peeling off the <o:p></o:p></div>
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covering
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silver
circle like a moon against <o:p></o:p></div>
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a
dark sky.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tonight,
the second full moon<o:p></o:p></div>
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of the month will rise to the
southeast<o:p></o:p></div>
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not
as rare as one might think, <o:p></o:p></div>
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maybe
every two or three years. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m
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<i>blue moon, you saw me standing alone</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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but
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my
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poems by Helen Ruggieri</div>
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Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-1654409360338455712016-05-11T09:18:00.000-04:002016-05-12T13:08:37.809-04:00DON'T FORGET THE TRADE FAIR<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Soon as I finish this I am going outside to dig up some Japanese Maples for the Trade Fair. Not so many this year, just three. It'll be cool to get the tree growth report from people as over The Trade Fair's history so far, a few dozen trees have gone home with people. Think any one wants a white pine (Native's Great Tree of Peace)? Think I'll try a couple. Most anyone will take perennial flowers. This year I will again bring some "I don't know what the heck they are" perennial flowers. I might learn their names from some one. John Roche's houseplants made the trip to New Mexico. I think it was by stretch limo, you can ask him for the story. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">TEARING DOWN THE TRADE FAIR AFTER CLOUDBURST
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">along
with their bedding and books being packed up, the room is filled with all those
moving on but in no hurry about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">many
hands chip in for clean up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">extra
food stuff is distributed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">cartons
of eggs named for poets who will digest them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">who’ll
take the two open gallons of milk?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Maril
will take milk “We were going to buy some on the way home”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">but
won’t take the near full carton because Bob is going to be away and we only
need three days’ worth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">large
bag of granola and small bag. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">whose
household has more mouths to feed gets the large bag<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">will
someone please take the Genesee Cream Ale? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">if not
we may find ourselves drinking from these cans next year because I’m not
drinking it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll
just bring it back, a year older and no wiser.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">there
is a milling of poets with nearly filled backpacks at the free tables. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> hoping to snatch up a last few tidbits <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">a small
quiet deal is made about a poem and a little book to put it in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">books
can be put away for another day – living plants need to find a home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">John
Roche can’t find one for the magical climbing house plant that will grow
thousands of yards in a single year and sticks to walls, windows and roof tiles
cutting out sunlight and making doors inoperable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I can’t
imagine why? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">he
takes his plant back home with him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">the
Trade Fair grounds empty only a few staying for the last clean-up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">my two
corn flower plants not taken. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">my plan
to plant them on the grounds at field edge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Michael
thinks there is room at his place and takes them ‘<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">they are
beautiful blue flower<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">they
will spread like crazy that’s the only thing but they are easy to control, just
pull up easily<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I don’t
know to tell him: Cornflowers are often used as an ingredient in some </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_blending_and_additives" title="Tea blending and additives"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration: none;">tea blends</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal_tea" title="Herbal tea"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration: none;">herbal teas</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">,
and is famous in the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Grey_(tea)" title="Lady Grey (tea)"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration: none;">Lady Grey</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">
blend of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinings" title="Twinings"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration: none;">Twinning’s</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I
gather extra handouts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">if I
get around to it, these can be added to mailings for those who might have been
here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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May 17, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gell Center <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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near
Naples New York<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-46996821779701647212016-05-11T08:54:00.001-04:002016-05-11T13:20:16.168-04:00PROGRAM CLOUDBURST COUNCIL 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">PROGRAM CLOUDBURST
COUNCIL 2016 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fri. May 13, 2016</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">noon-2:00
Early Bird Registration (enjoy the site)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">2:00-3:00 <b>Nature
Walk: haiku moments</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">
(an outdoor ramble
of roadside, fields and woods at Gell Center)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">3:00-6:00
Registration ongoing in Main Lodge</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">3:30-4:30
Beginning Poetry Circle (one poem from each poet)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:30-4:40
Poetry reading Marge Merrill</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:40-4:50
Poetry reading Maril Nowak </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">5:00-6:00
Light Dinner Served (soup, bread, green salad)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 6:00-6:05
Alan Casline: <b>Welcome</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">6:05-6:15
Poetry reading: George Wallace </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">6:15-6:25
Poetry reading: Stephen Baraban</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">6:25-7:35
<b>Gallery Six Reading Reenactment </b>(with
John Roche, Michael Czarnecki, Nick Eckerson, Dwain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wilder, George Wallace, Michael Peters, ryki Zuckerman, etc.)<b> </b> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">7:35-8:35
Panel: <b>Beautitude: </b>(George
Wallace, <b>Kerouac’s holy goof; </b>Alan Casline<b>, Mexico City
Blues</b>;</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">
Helen Ruggieri, <b>Kerouac’s Haiku/Spontaneous Verse</b>). <b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 8:35-8:40
Martha Deed: <b>Cloudburst</b> thoughts
and evening wrap-up</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 8:40
Party </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Sat. May 14, 2016</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 8:30 Breakfast
Served (oatmeal, cereal, fruit, bagels, eggs, etc.)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Breakfast will be continuously served.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">9:30-10:30 <b>Remembering
Ken Warren</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:30-10:40
Poetry Reading: Howard Nelson</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:40-10:50
Poetry Reading: Jane Sadowsky</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:50-11:00
Poetry Reading: Michael Peters</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">11:00-11:10
Poetry Reading: Helen Ruggieri</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">11:10-11:20
Poetry Reading: David Landrey</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">11:20-11:30
Break </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">11:30-12:30 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Panel: <b>Beatniks:</b> John
Roche, <b>on the road(ghosts); </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">
</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Alifair Skebe<b>, On Diane DiPrima, </b>Steve
Tills<b>, Reading Jim McCary</b>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">12:40-12:50
Poetry Reading: ryki zuckerman</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">12:50
-1:00 Poetry Reading: Nick Eckerson</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 1:00 Lunch Served
(cold sandwiches bag lunch)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Open Time 1:00 –
3:45</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tour in Finger Lakes
Watershed</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> with Steve
Lewandowski (optional)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Steven Lewandowski will
lead us on an expedition to Canadice Lake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Keeping Still: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Find a spot and stop. Sit still for at least 15
min. but do not check the time (optional)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:00-4:10 Poetry
Reading: Gretchen Schulz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:10-4:20
Poetry Reading: John Berry</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:20-4:30
Poetry Reading: Martha Treichler</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">4:30-5:35
Panel <b>– Beats and Beyond</b>: David
Landrey<b>, On Joel Oppenheimer; </b>ryki zuckerman<b>, On Joy </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">
Walsh, Janine Pommy Vega, Ann Waldman, </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Alifair Skebe and David Landrey<b>, On <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Denise
Levertov</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">5:35-5:45 Poetry
Reading: Robert McDonough </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">5:45-6:15 <b> Elegy
for the Road/Kerouac’s Ghost(performance)</b> Michael Czarnecki and Sue
Spencer</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 6:15–7:00
Dinner (hot vegetarian etc.)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 7:00-7:10
David Yockel</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 7:10-7:20 Dwain Wilder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">7:20-7:30
Leslie Gerber</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">7:30-7:40 Colleen
Powderly</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">7:40-8:00- <b>Music, Songs, and Poetry</b> by
Tamar Samuet-Sigel </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 8-10
- Open
Mic hosted by John Roche (by sign-up, those not otherwise slotted during
conference to go first)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bring a poem by a beat poet to read as
part of your open mic presentation</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 10-10:10
Wrap-up John Roche</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 10:11- 12:00
Campfire Party</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">12:00-? Midnight open mic until we run
out of poems</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Sunday May 15,
2016</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 9:30-11:00
Brunch
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 9:30-ongoing
<b>Trade Fair</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:30-10:40
Poetry Reading: Alifair Skebe
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 10-40-10:50
Poetry
Reading: Therese Broderick</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:50-11:00
Poetry Reading: Martha Deed</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 11:00-12:40
<b> Workshop:</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">“How many Beats does it take to change a light bulb?</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">
led by Therese L. Broderick</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Therese will help you to generate a piece of
writing—poem, song, essay, story, love letter, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> blog post,
or tweet—with a prompt that radiates from the numbers and equations, as well as
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> from the
non-quantifiable registers, of your Cloudburst Council experience.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 12:40–1:00
Further
Round-Robin of Poetry. Each poet read one poem</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-77358055079978031092016-05-10T19:37:00.001-04:002016-05-10T19:38:55.846-04:00Watershed Exploration in the Finger Lakes Region<img src="http://myfingerlakesny.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/vintage-finger-lakes-postcard.jpeg" height="253" width="320" /><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Tour to Canadice Lake Finger Lakes Watershed</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> with Steve Lewandowski </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Steven Lewandowski will lead an expedition <span style="background: white;">to the shores of Canadice Lake. He informs us it is a big hole but one filled with water. The trip is an optional activity as part of the 5th CLOUDBURST COUNCIL to be held Saturday afternoon May 14, 2016..</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462263180199442802.post-543021946473976662016-05-10T18:39:00.001-04:002016-05-11T08:49:50.867-04:003 Poems from Leslie Gerber<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Like Her</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Someone who looks like her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">is in the bed at night,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">at the table in the morning,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">walks with the dogs,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">but doesn’t talk like her,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">doesn’t wash her face,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">knows me as a shadow.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Someone who sounds like her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">may answer the phone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">but doesn’t know what to say,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">when asked her name</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">cannot respond,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">mixes up the dogs’ names,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">sometimes with mine.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Someone who moves like her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">sometimes opens the door</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">but doesn’t know old neighbors,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">cringes at the sight</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">of the postman,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">looks at the mail</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">as if it were a meteorite.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Someone who feels like her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">reacts to a hug</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">by hardening</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">and then doesn’t feel like her.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Retreats from water.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Wants more clothes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">to protect her from touch.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Someone who looks like her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">was once the sun</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">and now sleeps on the dark side</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">of the moon.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">When she wakes, she watches</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">pages from her book</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">as they float off into space.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">(from my book “Lies of the Poets”)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">One day in 2005</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">I gave names to everything in the gym.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">The first treadmill was Spencer,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">the second Spencer Jr.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">One bicycle was Armstrong–</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">for Neil, not Lance!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">The next one was Sadie.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">The big barbell weights were Marx Brothers,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">the small ones Andrews Sisters.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">When I had finished this task I took the list outside.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">I had not noticed before</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">that the sky was so blue it made my eyes tear,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">the clouds so white they looked like angels.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">As I burned my list</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">so my ancestors could read it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">I reflected on the damage I did to the air,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">the ashes seeking to destroy the lungs of birds.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">I resolved to stop driving one day a week</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">and to breathe as little as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">A moth came to me in my dreams that night</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">to thank me for my resolutions.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">She apologized that all the butterflies were busy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">but she was as white as the clouds.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Latvian Sprats</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">A small round can of tiny fish</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">with a transparent plastic top.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sprats, it said in large type</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">but I had to search for the country: Latvia.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">The fish were soft and tasty</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">with crunchy tails.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">They came from Latvia, which has a city,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Riga, and nothing else I know</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">so I closed my eyes and looked hard</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">and saw a small girl in dirty clothes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">lying awake on a cot in a dark room</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">shivering with cold and hunger.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Outside the room a wild boar</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">paced impatiently on a threadbare rug</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">its eyes green fire</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">its jaws steaming.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">I opened my eyes and saw</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">the girl had the face of my children.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">I was about to rush to her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">but she whispered,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Do not come. If you were here</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">you would see so many in the streets</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">you would shrivel into ugly dust.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Stay home and buy more fish</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">so that my father can have work</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">and give me the bread.</span><br />
<br style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Buy cans and leave them on the street.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Then, when someone takes one</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">follow her home and give her your money.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Then the image faded</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">and I could not remember</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">where I had bought the fish.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">(new work)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Leslie Gerber was born in Brooklyn in 1943. In 1964 he married a </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">family of a woman and three small girls. After 5 years as a book </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">cataloger at the Strand Book Store, he moved to Ulster County and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">started a mail order classical record business, Parnassus, which </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">operated until 2008. He still publishes classical music CDs and DVDs. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Despite a B.A. in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College, he did mostly </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">music criticism and only a little creative writing until he started </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">writing poetry in 1999. He now lives quietly in Woodstock with his wife </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">of 31 years.</span>Alan Caslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939561259084352769noreply@blogger.com0