Tales of the Tribe

  Tales of the Tribe http://wp.me/p102ON-E6  Synopsis: Society creates the stories it tells itself: factual, specious, apocryphal, dishonest; by any rendition, according to Wallace Stevens, will still be a fiction.  Myth wears the clothes of its culture, will always be a social fact, and those who would eschew these basic facets of humanity, will prove […] Continue reading

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Disappearance

~ Once was a family,       A patriarch, head; Now, an anomaly;       The patriarch dead.   No bond can hold up,       For long, I am told; But then, each a story,       Uniquely condoled.   Patriarch, matriarch,       Of figurehead, old; Each category       Obliquely extolled.   Out from disorder       An order […] Continue reading

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The Nines

~ Nine is a number     assigned to a month.   Nine is the number     to months of the year   We pass through     to get to to finally reach here.   Remember    September     Ninth month    of the year.     ~ Three quarters an annum,     three fourths so near   […] Continue reading

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The Chargé de Camp

  Time’s running out. At a point, you can tell. But you don’t.    You won’t notice,     you ignore it.   And that point begins when close family and friends up ends    and begins    to diminish.   ‘Diminishing Returns,’     the fancier term, I’ll just cut to the chase and […] Continue reading

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Metaphor Making

meta phorically  – such a hard word – thinking can be tricky business. That glorious sun!    erstwhile it runs would not be the same    without Texas.   Were this not so    how would we know insane    is the metaphor breaking. The state right next door    makes Cajun decor a stage      a mode      a being.   […] Continue reading

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two nights running

  in two nights running,     I dreampt of the place – two nights in dreaming     a nightmare.   and nightmares are rare     in true technicolor. too true to be true,     too weird.   that first night – no one!     no one was there. no face […] Continue reading

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