oregonnerd: differing views

Today’s Poetry (and how to handle the unexpected)

June 25, 2008 at 2:11 pm Leave a comment

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when the crystal flowers grew
we were uncertain what to do.
ah, but when they cut us:
    we smashed them.
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Glenn

and which is quite apropos it seems of much of what I’ve been saying recently.  Odd.  That poem was written before my return to Oregon, after I’d gone back to Oak Harbor.  1976, that was.

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