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wranx
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since 2002-06-07

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Moved from a shack to a barn

0 posted 2004-12-13 11:05 PM

Or know my "situation" might agree that Thomas Lux seems to have written a poem that I should have. That is, however, if I were capable.
"Poem in thanks"

Lord Whoever, thank you for this air
I'm about to in- and exhale, this hutch
in the woods, the wood for fire,
the light-both lamp and the natural stuff
of leaf-back, fern, and wing.
For the piano, the shovel
for ashes, the moth-gnawed
blankets, the stone-cold water
stone-cold: thank you.
Thank you, Lord, coming for
to carry me here -- where I'll gnash
it out, Lord, where I'll calm
and work, Lord, thank you
for the goddamn birds singing!

I always wondered who might have lived in this shack before I did...

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

1 posted 2004-12-13 11:50 PM

and perhaps someday...the next tenant will know that a gifted poet lived there before them.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2004-12-17 03:06 PM

and perhaps the shack will hold yet another generation past JM's...who will wonder at the voices in the shadows...

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2004-12-17 03:49 PM

Yes, I agree Ed...his poem is something you would say, and could say, except he did, first. Thanks for sharing this and yourself. Now, how about another poem?

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

4 posted 2004-12-17 04:05 PM

Since I'm not really familiar with Lux, all I can say is...it's a truth, I love to read you. Now, maybe onto a little "Lux" time.

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

5 posted 2004-12-17 09:22 PM

Oh Yeti, print it, and hide it in an "obvious place" along with one of yours, and hopefully that shack will indeed become a time capsule of wisdom for the next tenant. Okay so it is far-fetched but stranger things happen right? Now tuck in those tootsies and write us a snow poem. Boy I really, really wish it would snow here, (on the ground I mean.) It is too warm and it won't stick

Take care you, and yes Lux must have had you in mind.

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