I stood imagining one Winter night
And saw the organ of a monster’s sight:
That ghostly orb, a serpent’s blinkless eye,
Was swimming through the ocean of the sky.
The world, submerged within surfaceless dark,
Seemed changed and transformed: it was then as stark
As any sea’s low floor, immune to rays
That bring illumination to the days.
The leafless trees were like [...]
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Words were invented to prevent the explosion of human beings.
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Life always happens faster in hindsight. This, in fact, is one of the principle powers of memory: its ability to function like a circus mirror of time, reflecting a warped and false image or idea, something which is inherently different than the experience of time as the present moment or as the impediment to [...]
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The will is a force of spirit: it is the sculptor of an idea - the stone being a life.
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I never trusted schools:
Too much linoleum and metal -
No sense of the spirit.
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Churches didn’t appeal much either.
A church doesn’t look very different
Than a CVS.
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But there is, sometimes,
A wildness in the Spring air
Like a fire that can be caught
Breathed, smelled, tasted.
If that is not the Glory of God,
Then I don’t know what is.
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