Short Perpetuum Poems

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The Lord will watch and keep thee from harm,
Wherever thou goest, now and in perpetuum.


Date: 05/31/2019...

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Shrinking time down
to a factor of one
The future and past
cancel out zero-sum
The moment, this instant
the only thing real
Unmasking the present
—nothing left to conceal

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: April, 2021)...

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Nimbus green witch with gold eyes and jut out chin
and nimbus hood-like, held high and out taut neck;
Nimbus scuds a cosmos turn, from Salem be
                                  
         in perpetuum


Date: 06/13/2019...

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All of my life,
living for today

All of tomorrow,
living for tomorrow

None of my life,
living for yesterday

Lived as today
—as today was tomorrow

(Reading ‘The Portable Einstein,’ September, 2020)

“Today was tomorrow
—to all of yesterday”...

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self portraits
     landscapes
     in the plein air
fragments
figures
imagery
     measures
     of the dance
games
of dexterity
      in
         formal
            design
a lyrical
parable
      recognisable
      rewaking
the
existential
     in a simple
     exercise
of
blind
    adoration

FP tribute WCW poems Breugel...

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