tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16463325402548816242024-02-07T20:43:15.419-05:00poetry of strong livingSMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-57850720318390638282009-05-28T13:04:00.005-04:002009-05-28T13:12:13.293-04:00Demobilized<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CSMPRAT%7E1.MY-%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link style="font-family: arial;" rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CSMPRAT%7E1.MY-%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link style="font-family: arial;" rel="colorSchemeMapping" 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mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">I am a demobilized armada
<br />A vast array of war machines
<br />Languishing in dock and depot
<br />Missiles and tanks, medicines and masks
<br />Beautiful when turned to ugly purpose
<br />Pathetic when relegated to rust or recall<o:p>
<br />
<br /></o:p>How noble the soldier appears
<br />Carrying his sword into terror and torment
<br />Kill or be killed somehow a moral maxim
<br />Each uttered word filled with urgent portent
<br />The reality of ready mortality
<br />Giving purpose to the life-driven life<o:p>
<br />
<br /></o:p>The decommissioned warrior like an astronaut
<br />Returning to an Earth impossibly unchanged
<br />Not merely life goes on but death and disappointment
<br />For all the talk of insight and transcendence
<br />The war was waged not for a new road
<br />But for the road on which we travel still<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:10;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-55766299402306685092009-05-11T21:24:00.003-04:002009-05-13T19:18:23.379-04:00Thermals<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecoparkresort.com/images/galleries/birds/hawk1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 179px;" src="http://ecoparkresort.com/images/galleries/birds/hawk1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>
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<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">Three weeks later</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">I spy a hawk as I hike</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">Twenty-two miles upriver</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">Thermal circle of searching</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">For the same in the new</p> SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-27470696100408032542009-04-21T15:05:00.005-04:002009-04-21T19:27:34.358-04:00Sailing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiha0eLC14HvWuRRAyUoAYLUuJZg4j1PwP1Ms4B9B79r1pY43z38UJMvJnF9gKgYKo0AY7YGYOQ5O9MIL0tV9H-U-ZIj-3MuSdDu5igQKv_mEwr0A1xZUnMTJmbXuZxBVoXncuaLANvjtr/s1600-h/IMAG0272.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiha0eLC14HvWuRRAyUoAYLUuJZg4j1PwP1Ms4B9B79r1pY43z38UJMvJnF9gKgYKo0AY7YGYOQ5O9MIL0tV9H-U-ZIj-3MuSdDu5igQKv_mEwr0A1xZUnMTJmbXuZxBVoXncuaLANvjtr/s200/IMAG0272.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327289952553366834" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A flotilla of sailfish congregate<br />In the rainy silence of the upper basin<br />Each experiment with healing in 5 mph wind<br />As if genuflecting to the black water<br />Acknowledging the meaning of ripples<br /><br />The determined dance with defeat<br />The tourists in their duckboats<br />Straining to see through the fog<br />The jogger in yellow slicks<br />Imagining yesterday's marathon<br /><br />From my aerie vantage<br />I can spy 20 years of missteps<br />The reaching and rejection<br />The naivete and narcissism<br />The guilt of the living<br /><br />That I can still bear to look<br />Is the paradox of survival<br />To live with mortality named<br />To know where defeat lurks<br />And go sailing in the rain<br /><br /><br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-76133069947230167752009-04-14T18:54:00.008-04:002009-04-14T20:41:52.467-04:00Ellison<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7KFwEXFO7D0unkS8lVIvA53u8SFTa7vcyYEfsln76QsJqNvisChiNEmebZ4MZstQinHT5QoWwfsRBF02DMFYDeUX1iLZZ513X6bgA8ELGovA_zRZ92Wcychm2OsNwhWFgt9ngxsLxWS3_/s1600-h/5546535.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7KFwEXFO7D0unkS8lVIvA53u8SFTa7vcyYEfsln76QsJqNvisChiNEmebZ4MZstQinHT5QoWwfsRBF02DMFYDeUX1iLZZ513X6bgA8ELGovA_zRZ92Wcychm2OsNwhWFgt9ngxsLxWS3_/s320/5546535.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324692116987778498" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Fourteen stories up<br />In a building I imagine<br />Is named for Ralph Ellison<br />I look down on playing fields<br />Invisible to the teams<br />Soccer and Little League<br />That I pretend to scout.<br /><br />My room has reflective glass<br />Inscrutable, impenetrable<br />Like a Trooper's shades<br />A million dollar view<br />Of a river that offered black silence<br />In response to my snowshoe inquires<br />Now sparkling, swollen with melt.<br /><br />I can see the lives move by<br />On fields and bike paths<br />As I so often did myself<br />Wondering who is more real<br />Knowing that reality is ecumenical<br />As is the river dark in Dover<br />Now alighted and alive below me.<br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-61124529173828083672009-03-16T20:03:00.004-04:002009-03-16T20:33:05.727-04:00Seeds<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzFR8YmMBg1eTXYOU3KSjpydj1Rbwf9GHT6Kbj5AONvFY7FEVxNlRB0TcHaEZ_Kpbsn5_CqsrzdVaj-7rCRn9JTquulx75WhlXUdM9twdpGCAP8iejiOgsjqSvaS05NadjYmJbE4Gs3xNQ/s400/pomegranate2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzFR8YmMBg1eTXYOU3KSjpydj1Rbwf9GHT6Kbj5AONvFY7FEVxNlRB0TcHaEZ_Kpbsn5_CqsrzdVaj-7rCRn9JTquulx75WhlXUdM9twdpGCAP8iejiOgsjqSvaS05NadjYmJbE4Gs3xNQ/s400/pomegranate2.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomegranate#Greece_and_Greek_mythology">Persephone</a> before me<br />The bloody seeds of a pomegranate<br />Or something akin<br />Were my very undoing<br />Slipping from my marrow<br />Tricking me into accepting them<br />As Hades tricked her<br /><br />A long winter was the price<br />Decreed by the Fates<br />For taking in the seeds<br />My skin a barren, hairless desert<br />Earth and life frozen<br />In suspended animation<br />As <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotho">Clotho</a> spun my thread<br /><br />The seeds will bring me back<br />Heeding Zeus' command<br />To undo Hades' deception<br />Planted in an empty field<br />They will find life<br />Defying <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachesis_%28mythology%29">Lachesis</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropos">Atropos</a><br />Bearing fruit from blood.<br /><br /><br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-41836992597730380712009-02-07T12:37:00.004-05:002009-02-07T13:12:51.367-05:00Gates<span style="font-family: arial;">After two days of limited movement<br />Bed-toilet-chair-bed<br />Mentally pacing a generous cell<br />I am disconnected from all tubes<br />And step onto the elevator<br />Pressing 1 nonchalantly<br />As if I did this regularly<br />As if anything were regular<br /><br />I blink reflexively at the sun<br />Shining against unfamiliar snow<br />Offended at the world<br />For spinning on without me<br />But feel little else<br />Not my tongue<br />Not the sting<br />Not the release<br /><br />One more gate passed through<br />Another token collected<br />Gaining entrance to another room<br />Another test to be tested<br />Data clinging to me<br />But little else<br />Save the sensation that lasts<br />More gates await<br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-65870881621176422092009-01-18T07:22:00.002-05:002009-01-18T07:33:29.362-05:00Incongruity<span style="font-family: arial;">The chemo floor is laid out<br />In patterns meant to assure<br />Blue white blue blue white<br />Squares of a checkerboard<br /><br />In this box of a building<br />They put lines into me<br />Running down straight poles<br />From rectangular bags<br /><br />Into how many squares<br />Have I entered with hope<br />Watching white coats<br />Ponder slides and charts<br /><br />All this to battle a world<br />Of the round and oblong<br />Spherical planets and tumors<br />Evading angular control<br /><br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-72600715345995424342009-01-04T09:50:00.004-05:002009-01-04T10:41:33.146-05:00Émigré<span style="font-family: arial;">The year breaks against the dilapidated jetty<br />Not so much new as alien and indecipherable<br />The saccharine certainties of <span style="font-style: italic;">Auld Lang Syne</span><br />A useless tool for navigating this strange planet<br />Obscured by snow, recession, and disease<br /><br />In a matter of weeks we can look forward<br />To the soaring oratory of hope<br />The audacity found in looking skyward<br />Rather than to the ravaged landscape<br />Into which we expect to plant seeds<br /><br />Is it anxiety or bravery that fixes our eyes<br />Steadily on the grim metrics of the now<br />The relentless chop of expectations dashed<br />Of assumptions held like a mogul's privileges<br />Of savings accounts and red blood cell counts<br /><br />We exhale from the collective delusion<br />That sustained us through the false years<br />Of presumed safety and accomplishment<br />Nothing for it but to endure as an </span><span style="font-family: arial;">é</span><span style="font-family: arial;">migré<br />Learning the new language as we go.<br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-18422855833620748782008-12-28T08:09:00.005-05:002008-12-28T12:19:30.774-05:00Stranger<span style="font-family:arial;">One wonders how many journeys<br />Ostensibly of self-discovery and definition<br />Are intended as such by the searcher<br />Setting out to become more than he is<br /><br />Odysseus went to Troy for glory and honor<br />Then merely wished to return home<br />To the comforts of Penelope and court<br />Never the tests of sirens and Scylla<br /><br />What, ultimately, is discovered<br />Is no truth he can recognize<br />But the stranger living within<br />Unbidden and rarely welcome<br /><br />The voyage of acceptance<br />Of what the razor can reveal<br />Of what the eyes can take in<br />Of what the heart can sustain.<br /><br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-58022532524948229602008-12-22T10:44:00.004-05:002008-12-23T10:41:33.611-05:00Early<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAiLaE6VmgS-uFyzbllhxkGGhToc0obMwNAizTthgMsTksL1WCoElhjpoUdl3ey6juzGzvds9aw8UNg648cTyDCESbuN4lU8cWYgxjyMUwL6CG9T_k5KwqYq0XxguCVV_XOz-IGIoeVY1b/s1600-h/n670858674_1095976_7748.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAiLaE6VmgS-uFyzbllhxkGGhToc0obMwNAizTthgMsTksL1WCoElhjpoUdl3ey6juzGzvds9aw8UNg648cTyDCESbuN4lU8cWYgxjyMUwL6CG9T_k5KwqYq0XxguCVV_XOz-IGIoeVY1b/s320/n670858674_1095976_7748.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283011119742070242" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The holiday comes early If it comes at all<br />Seen vaguely through a fog<br />Of Benedryl and ocean-borne snow<br />The rituals carried out<br />To keep the old normal in sight<br />As a new normal covers the world<br /><br />Symptoms of the new present themselves<br />Falling snow, falling hair<br />White on black, stark and definite<br />The tide beaten back<br />By the engines of modernity<br />IV lines and snowblowers<br /><br />The tree erected haphazardly<br />The gifts exchanged quickly<br />A holiday observed self-consciously<br />Moments of illusory clarity<br />As lights blink steadily<br />Vital signs of what we've become<br /><br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-44464421824862293512008-12-07T19:31:00.007-05:002008-12-07T20:24:13.281-05:00Release<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOy80Um7wJvPje1x1V77dGNgkGXn8rxL54OOw5O-7QZK9ThPHClftP6oeF0aP6r0v6mam8A9wArigyGYuGyLU29jRHSn_awieIXZSS0jXw81G2ksbo8uNku1WjuGjA0v-nrC18ATKf4DO/s1600-h/IMAG0221.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOy80Um7wJvPje1x1V77dGNgkGXn8rxL54OOw5O-7QZK9ThPHClftP6oeF0aP6r0v6mam8A9wArigyGYuGyLU29jRHSn_awieIXZSS0jXw81G2ksbo8uNku1WjuGjA0v-nrC18ATKf4DO/s320/IMAG0221.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277223439649479906" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />At 4:15 p.m. on a cloudy Sunday<br />I sign the lengthy release forms<br />Skimming through the paragraphs<br />Finding the parental line<br />That says I trust them<br />These well-meaning, well-pierced<br />Twentysomethings with their abs<br />And their way about a rock wall<br /><br />As reluctant holiday shoppers<br />Move by with aimless purpose<br />We sidle up to the plastic tower<br />With its contrived footholds<br />As real as anything pulsing<br />Through my veins and glands<br />As certain to find the mark<br />As we are to grab the rope<br /><br />I help my youngest son<br />Into the harness and climbing shoes<br />All to release me from worry<br />To reassure him that nothing<br />No harm will come to him<br />That all risked is reward<br />That fathers and precious sons<br />And would-be heroes never fall<br /><br />With 11-year-old nonchalance<br />And a side glance for reassurance<br />He pulls on the rope with his all<br />Planting feet on the first holds<br />Hearing the spotter urge him on<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Straighten the leg...reach<br /></span>Take a breath and think<br />Hear your own voice<br /><br />Two stories up and two thirds there<br />He can go no further<br />The next hand grip beyond him<br />The left knee bent and locked<br />He asks if he can come down<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">What do you think?</span><br />Another breath, another pause<br />The left leg straightens<br /><br />He slaps the top of the pulley<br />And begins his triumphant slide<br />A moment to carry us home<br />Out of the REI store<br />Down the Pike and 128<br />Oblivious to snowflakes<br />And the tailights of the aimless<br />We see our exit and take it<br /><br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-62337827549818922022008-12-02T11:37:00.011-05:002008-12-03T15:53:41.187-05:00Turgid<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEfd_veYlQNZoILVMkMN6VExZI5zNc86yiB_BMeoLSMbNSPsezCccack0Uu-FysNRbgsLuOy2RrsLSz025qfc3-2U4fIZA035JEDOK3K9t5s9sFmtaZAhCMByxnmctt87RUc5aEREJysEU/s1600-h/n670858674_1026158_6168.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEfd_veYlQNZoILVMkMN6VExZI5zNc86yiB_BMeoLSMbNSPsezCccack0Uu-FysNRbgsLuOy2RrsLSz025qfc3-2U4fIZA035JEDOK3K9t5s9sFmtaZAhCMByxnmctt87RUc5aEREJysEU/s320/n670858674_1026158_6168.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275669577369523074" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Outside the oncologist's window<br />Eighty feet below my new world<br />The Charles transforms itself<br />From a meandering country stream<br />To a turbid flurry of foam<br />Sheer rock walls and a tumescent island<br />Channel the water down the Lower Falls<br />A small relic of the Industrial era<br /><br />Cars pass by on Rt. 16 like flies<br />Passengers oblivious to the turmoil<br />Staring ahead and rushing<br />To Starbucks and beyond<br />The old falls yesterday's news<br />The building above it<br />An anonymous box of nothing<br />But for the turgid cells inside<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUIhuGcdqpEjOTEtXaxt1PKHi6MD8hKyyVG8H80YOPdLIXPKqapIxMjwRsT1zwD1D_ej-8MSxWvr2w7PpDd3uoGb1YPvcG-Aqc0MU4JMnRhCQmy5gthmpFrnumMH29Ib8byfgOMc26ibdq/s1600-h/n670858674_1021446_6896.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUIhuGcdqpEjOTEtXaxt1PKHi6MD8hKyyVG8H80YOPdLIXPKqapIxMjwRsT1zwD1D_ej-8MSxWvr2w7PpDd3uoGb1YPvcG-Aqc0MU4JMnRhCQmy5gthmpFrnumMH29Ib8byfgOMc26ibdq/s320/n670858674_1021446_6896.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275246989870993570" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-31625449437159562222008-11-29T10:13:00.005-05:002008-11-29T10:45:55.442-05:00Risk<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhp2V0S9uAUk4DrlmbZJGRPwJrr0UtlAw3r9PPV5WNO2PtUOOs7qfCqJk_r-Y8rE1KeDrpXUb2JNs0XrWYYzTOodZpkl1-PGNcI9uVukJo-qTcHqD0yeSlJy3da40rLgQZG0dgMK97XP7S/s1600-h/nrc1888-i1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhp2V0S9uAUk4DrlmbZJGRPwJrr0UtlAw3r9PPV5WNO2PtUOOs7qfCqJk_r-Y8rE1KeDrpXUb2JNs0XrWYYzTOodZpkl1-PGNcI9uVukJo-qTcHqD0yeSlJy3da40rLgQZG0dgMK97XP7S/s320/nrc1888-i1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274105730680014130" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Bravado, like innocence</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Bleeds into the blue sunlight</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Winking like a harlot</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Calling like a siren</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The time of posing<br />Assuming a will of iron<br />A Lance-like determination<br />Is exposed for what it is<br /><br />The intruder is sentient<br />With its own brilliant design<br />Co-opting gene, cell and marrow<br />To its truly iron will<br /><br />The host has been awakened<br />The interloper revealed<br />In lumps, scans, and slides<br />For the quiet, genius of its plan<br /><br />It speaks to me now<br />In even, measured tones<br />Of mutually assured destruction<br />Of its own inevitable death<br /><br />As my counterattack forms its lines<br />Each cut goes deeper than the last<br />Biopsy, marrow sample, mediport<br />Pain a direct line of communication<br /><br />There is no victimless war<br />No surgical bombing campaign<br />The casualties will surely mount<br />And all my treasures will be at risk<br /><br /><br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-70496295315370622492008-11-26T17:42:00.007-05:002008-11-26T18:01:42.796-05:00Vantage<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP26uDktM5y5ugIm1SqeOZ6OHpk6lHS4A07L18GNhTO4u-Tp4_7zgKbDDbKjjeF5DvwH3dv88enb-9wQi_Th1WWgAohtIu1aBJXmU67W3_q9i2FVT_ERjuTXPMJSrnuGFiYcL9Bj9N3Qjv/s1600-h/castle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP26uDktM5y5ugIm1SqeOZ6OHpk6lHS4A07L18GNhTO4u-Tp4_7zgKbDDbKjjeF5DvwH3dv88enb-9wQi_Th1WWgAohtIu1aBJXmU67W3_q9i2FVT_ERjuTXPMJSrnuGFiYcL9Bj9N3Qjv/s320/castle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273102945911677954" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Sitting in the corner room<br />Of the Inn at Castle Hill<br />Where we celebrated liberty<br />Over lobster hash and jazz<br />Where we celebrated marriage<br />Over asthma and divided children<br /><br />I can look straight ahead<br />Out the west-facing window<br />And watch the sun set<br />In rose-colored harmony<br />With the azure sky<br />And the steady channel waters<br /><br />I can turn to my left<br />Feeling the lump on my clavicle<br />And look to the southwest<br />At the black clouds of evening<br />Swallowing the bruised sun<br />Into a wine dark sea<br /><br />Vantage is everything<br />We can marvel at the rose<br />We can grieve the bruise<br />We can live with both truths<br />Of what is changed and lost<br />Of what is possibility and gift<br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-74280073731798485582008-11-24T16:03:00.004-05:002008-11-24T16:21:34.319-05:00Threshold<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNNy3vRDlNy4CNXpNP8Ivk_X8X2nbcUNqufna04Mo-FqzV_XoG5DVxtMIb5XRJ0gZMan57yayKyCYMNw9v4ukj_jw5cZmVZxWMgTBzmKoocWjjZkZxQ-g02kllAr4TMh9oNU03hBgP56b7/s1600-h/IMAG0183.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNNy3vRDlNy4CNXpNP8Ivk_X8X2nbcUNqufna04Mo-FqzV_XoG5DVxtMIb5XRJ0gZMan57yayKyCYMNw9v4ukj_jw5cZmVZxWMgTBzmKoocWjjZkZxQ-g02kllAr4TMh9oNU03hBgP56b7/s320/IMAG0183.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272332991895692370" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">There are moments in our lives<br />Of contrived or manufactured transition<br />The wedding, the prom, the New Year's party<br />When things might change forever<br />Or they might offer more of the same<br /><br />As I walk down my office stairs<br />Down to the streets of Brockton<br />I know I will never return here<br />The same man in mind or body<br />That part of me will go no matter<br /><br />I am already a member<br />Of a new class of people<br />Even before I take on<br />The familiar talismans of disease<br />Yellow wristbands and shaven heads<br /><br />Billboards and radio spots cry out<br />The siren calls of my new brethren<br />The survivors and the fallen and the families<br />Like proud, fellow owners<br />Of a new car I just bought<br /><br />What I can save of myself<br />And what is worth saving<br />What will return to this building<br />And what must fade away<br />Is the essence of the battle<br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-48593746618519035352008-11-21T20:34:00.010-05:002008-11-21T21:11:14.188-05:00Leaf<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcC5Kuqkpc9IrTdC0oNFimz3mIAD7ufuwEElfPLBmPF-QajCQnhic9Y641vCwMSrlCKJoduH8DrBI-m5X6DHKEznHg75jeZVDohAGeplSWj7JWAJQk28-w1vEJZB279vlTFHzTU45WxPod/s1600-h/IMAG0182.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcC5Kuqkpc9IrTdC0oNFimz3mIAD7ufuwEElfPLBmPF-QajCQnhic9Y641vCwMSrlCKJoduH8DrBI-m5X6DHKEznHg75jeZVDohAGeplSWj7JWAJQk28-w1vEJZB279vlTFHzTU45WxPod/s320/IMAG0182.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271297916770515474" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The perfect cup of coffee<br />The kind with the leaf<br />Etched implausibly in the foam<br />Sits drained at my table<br />And I almost grieve its passing<br /><br />Leaving the tiny Cambridge cafe<br />I pause at the door too long<br />Protecting this indulgent interlude<br />As I do each solitary drop<br />Of fading normalcy<br /><br />But it's all interlude already<br />And it's all indulgence<br />The notion that any moment<br />Can be seized and held<br />Is both illusory and arrogant<br /><br />I follow the highway south<br />Familiar landmarks sail away<br />And strange rooms come into view<br />In buildings that replace the known<br />With conjectures of destiny<br /><br />The labyrinth of hospital wings<br />Navigated confidently<br />With subconscious efficiency<br />PET scan films collected<br />An exit with speed and stealth<br /><br />Bifurcation and ambivalence<br />Are the rule of the day<br />Holding back the passage of time<br />In one moment<br />Only to will it on faster in the next<br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-23396720281127038592008-11-17T20:32:00.005-05:002008-11-17T21:47:29.823-05:00Patron<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifPuySyqlkoxT3px-BBOTp4apz0BOsMHz6W47Q3W3ZGS8JNWo0noafJv_-yCv0Zeq9pqQSnYVOP5cT8ZWRR5zij8hQj3P0kYXoqhewZAcRZsvIvc6dkiN8rbAErHheyMcpwCrertPEifvz/s1600-h/Saint+Stephen+of+Hungary+August+16.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifPuySyqlkoxT3px-BBOTp4apz0BOsMHz6W47Q3W3ZGS8JNWo0noafJv_-yCv0Zeq9pqQSnYVOP5cT8ZWRR5zij8hQj3P0kYXoqhewZAcRZsvIvc6dkiN8rbAErHheyMcpwCrertPEifvz/s320/Saint+Stephen+of+Hungary+August+16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269804404397893874" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">I was born on the Feast day<br />Of my namesake<br />Another reluctant hero<br />Whose name meant crown<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Stephanos</span> said the Greeks<br /><br />I imagine his reluctance<br />In the way he wore his crown<br />Cross askew and awkward<br />Eyes set in sadness and disbelief<br />At the barbarism of his people<br /><br />Yet there he stood firmly<br />At the gates of Vienna<br />At the dawn of the second Millenium<br />And defiantly told the Ottomans<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">You shall not pass</span><br /><br />Even the pagan Magyars<br />His flesh and blood<br />Who resisted conversion<br />Were worthy of his protection<br />And ultimately, mercy<br /><br />Who is to say of what I'm made<br />Merely by dint of a name<br />A birth date, not a birthright<br />Yet here I stand at my own gates<br />Worthy in my defiance.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-44844253710146031152008-11-15T18:05:00.001-05:002008-11-17T16:48:26.157-05:00Mantle<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.geocities.com/sampyroy2002/ML.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 288px;" src="http://www.geocities.com/sampyroy2002/ML.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/SMPRAT%7E1.MY-/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /><span style="font-family:arial;">A new use of an old and trusted word<br />That conjures images of fireplaces<br />Of winter nights and marshmallows<br />Of picture frames and garlands<br />Dinner parties and solitude<br /><br />Or a part of the Earth<br />That seems imaginary but isn't<br />The protective layer<br />Between crust and core<br />Keeping us from melting<br /><br />Or perhaps it should be<br />A garment of power<br />Worn by feudal lords<br />Cardinals, popes, and knights<br />With entitlement or reluctance<br /><br />Now a cell among many<br />Fueled by rogue genetics<br />Assuming the purple mantle of power<br />Between my crust and my core<br />With entitlement, not reluctance.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-46044786402871454542008-11-14T08:40:00.000-05:002008-11-14T08:45:06.666-05:00Dreadnought<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeJ3VXInpPCeoaDSs8Xiq5wI0jRTTMi7zwT0Jw-S1bL6H9Z5ZvP0dxUQ9Ddcqq9DTNq6csGu5i8Qi1A6faPxsJe0vBsIFbd93h-aFdCmkiybNcnNqDOEPRp2ana1XZ7bZtSWEiEreWWILi/s1600-h/HMS_Dreadnought_1906_H63596.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeJ3VXInpPCeoaDSs8Xiq5wI0jRTTMi7zwT0Jw-S1bL6H9Z5ZvP0dxUQ9Ddcqq9DTNq6csGu5i8Qi1A6faPxsJe0vBsIFbd93h-aFdCmkiybNcnNqDOEPRp2ana1XZ7bZtSWEiEreWWILi/s320/HMS_Dreadnought_1906_H63596.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268507945182630882" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">Dreadnought</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Conjures images of battleships</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">With HMS and carved figureheads</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Pendants and signals flapping gallantly</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">As she cuts a steady path</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Through the chop of some foreign sea</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">Fear nothing</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Is what it means</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">In that uniquely British way</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Of dressing up something difficult</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">To sound noble and innate</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Like stiff upper lips</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">Dread mortality</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Is what my mind tells me</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Through the pit in my stomach</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">And the look in her eyes</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The squeeze of my doctor’s hand</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">As he bid me good luck</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">Fear ignorance</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Is what I must live by</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Not fear of what I know</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">That all things pass</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Even and especially me</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Except what we give to others.</span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-65589297016385165922008-11-11T12:33:00.000-05:002008-11-11T20:16:17.666-05:00River<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Qa4jDQ7W1dJ4J9zv9RUztAd3LuSDMfCbZxsY40oD9jEJT0ES8DucwuMyJ0yKq5QtG4sY1l5s9fQNa5iMNRFuVU0rrKPPUM2SR36QmjyvCY7yhmjJNhcmgJ3tKcw_mtlr2o_KI8Cc4JAT/s1600-h/n670858674_399818_9250.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Qa4jDQ7W1dJ4J9zv9RUztAd3LuSDMfCbZxsY40oD9jEJT0ES8DucwuMyJ0yKq5QtG4sY1l5s9fQNa5iMNRFuVU0rrKPPUM2SR36QmjyvCY7yhmjJNhcmgJ3tKcw_mtlr2o_KI8Cc4JAT/s320/n670858674_399818_9250.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267455025850728210" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Trudging through the woods</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Limbs bent over under the new snow’s weight</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />As if bowing to some unseen god</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Certainly not me, barely competent in snowshoes</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I lose the trail again, or it loses me</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />And I trace the power lines down to the open field</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Flinching at the crackle of each breaking branch</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Past the defrocked priory I pick up my pace</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Swinging my arms rhythmically</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I approach the first approximation</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Of the Stations of the Cross</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Although there’s little sign of suffering here</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Only silence and spooked deer</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Descending to the river</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />I follow them, unsure of the trail</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />And the future that awaits</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Trusting in the truth of the river</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Black and alive as it flows</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Ice clogged to Wellesley and beyond</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I break my gaze and let it let go of me</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Steeling myself for another ascent.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"></span>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646332540254881624.post-18377390022777892772008-11-11T12:18:00.000-05:002008-11-12T06:09:23.868-05:00Compartment<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiag7AzeFc1epBPyU2jhgxihCb7dxrwoFARmJMLhJGxKwjG29r9MId3eU3ngX5HQkFAmLfMmiMphoIv7mg8kaMu2TfmJPy46OQSUHtAm53zvOSUj1gtgglDPED-DIJ6r2B3NkDPDV1e-RLS/s1600-h/IMAG0181.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267726487437802754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiag7AzeFc1epBPyU2jhgxihCb7dxrwoFARmJMLhJGxKwjG29r9MId3eU3ngX5HQkFAmLfMmiMphoIv7mg8kaMu2TfmJPy46OQSUHtAm53zvOSUj1gtgglDPED-DIJ6r2B3NkDPDV1e-RLS/s320/IMAG0181.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Jel_84-oqIo/SRm_ckLy1mI/AAAAAAAAAC8/hUil4i99TMM/s1600-h/IMAG0181.jpg"></a><span style="font-family:arial;">November light bathes the trail in artifice<br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Illusory brightness and warmth</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Deceiving the hopeful journeyman</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Into fantasies of life and health</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />When a 4:30 sunset is all that awaits him</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Standing before the shaving mirror</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />He could imagine he merely sees jowls</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The price of middle age</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Rather than the swollen lymph nodes</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Now riddling his body from neck to groin</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Is it the power to trick himself</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Imagining an early sunset is not inevitable</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Or is it the power to compartmentalize</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />To bathe in light now rather than fear darkness</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />That will save him from himself</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div>SMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881076104335257906noreply@blogger.com0