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Best Oaf Poems


Clumsy Oaf
in her people’s wisdom,
The author said,
"No Native language has
a cognate for “human” as
separate from other beings."
The NPR interviewer sighed and
became excited by the unity
of all things and the serenity
implied in this foreign paradigm.

I’ve read enough philosophy and
literature to know we "the civilized"
West speak about the...

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Categories: oaf, angst, anxiety, nature, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things