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1 " It's up to poets to revive the gods. "
― Jim Harrison , Dead Man's Float
2 " Rumi advised me to keep my spiritup in the branches of a tree and not peekout too far, so I keep mine in the very tallwillows along the irrigation ditch out back "
3 " Christ rose so long ago but the airhe rose through hasn't forgottenthe slight red contrail from the wounds. "
4 " Pain (2)...You want to give up, throw in the towel but youcan't give up because you're all you have. "
5 " From a distance the head is a bowling ball on the shoulders, but not so: a carapace and inside, the contents are what children call "gushy." The soft brain has its own improbable life containing galaxies, tens of thousands of people met, the microcosm of life in one place and on the diaphanous and often filthy cloth of memory, hanging there and battered on the clothesline in so many years of bad weather, wet and stiff with ice or blasted by sun and heat, part of it in shreds. (From the poem, 'Round') "
6 " I was cooking my life in a cracked clay pot that was leaking. I had found secrets I didn’t deserve to know. When the battle for the mind is finally over it’s late June, green and raining. "