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0 posted 2006-02-02 07:50 PM

Walking In The New Plant

Out here where I used to work,
it may be all flat sun on concrete now
but, remember how I would walk the night,
how I followed the rounds of it glare by shadow
from building into building?

Can you see how I knew it all so well?
I’d leave the flashlight in my pocket
at three a.m., let the sounds and echoes
guide me through, those and my knowing,
which is an echo too.

It is only place to take a walk now
and I wouldn’t know how
to do what they are doing over there.
I could do some of it even now
get through it in a way, at least,
but I would have so much to learn.

Some of them still know me;
they wave and I wave back,
change direction just before they do
so we won’t have to meet.
Even their old times
are not my old times now,
an adjustment I’ve had to make.

This place is changing like dunes;
between my walks the random cranes
and crews take and take until
I only know the outlines,
remember where this was,
that was, where I was,
see myself still doing things
I can barely recall, in places
that aren’t places anymore.

soon it will all be strange to me
and I won’t walk here ever,
not even in memory.

Martie

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1 posted 2006-02-02 09:23 PM

Ed...It's difficult to deal with, when something you were so used to, changes. Yet I enjoyed this poem and the memory that you still have. I know a few places like that myself, and even people.

The Lady
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2 posted 2006-02-02 11:13 PM

You amaze me... and move me. I know a place like that too.

iliana
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3 posted 2006-02-02 11:56 PM

RatL, this works for both a job change but on a much larger scale for internal personal change, as well...and that's how I'm chosing to interpret. Great write.

...jo

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4 posted 2006-02-02 11:58 PM

We're doubling the capacity of the place, without increasing the amount of land it's built on -- a half square mile it already filled -- and doing it in a rush, while in full operation. You can imagine the hullabaloo, and the disruption of the way the place has looked for twenty years....I used to know the place so intimately that you could have shown me a picture of a random square of pavement or floor, and I could have told you precisely where it was, and led you to it in the dark....now the dozers never doze.

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iliana
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5 posted 2006-02-03 12:05 PM

Thanks for the detail, Ed...sorry to hear it. Change is hard sometimes; sounds like one of those times.

....jo

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6 posted 2006-02-03 12:25 PM

On the other hand, I sometimes do write a poem about a single thing....but not often. It's just too much fun, playing with dimensions!

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7 posted 2006-02-03 06:53 AM

Time and progress moves too fast..but they cannot take away the thoughts in your mind..enjoyed the write and thoughts here Ed..thank you..

Goldenrose.

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8 posted 2006-02-03 07:23 AM

You three-dimension very well.
Thanks for the tour!

miscellanea
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9 posted 2006-02-03 08:04 AM

Ed,

Could have copied the poem, but isn't that always the case?

let the sounds and echoes
guide me through, those and my knowing,
which is an echo too.

love it!

cathy

LeeJ
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10 posted 2006-02-03 11:35 AM

Some of them still know me;
they wave and I wave back,
change direction just before they do
so we won’t have to meet.
Even their old times
are not my old times now,
an adjustment I’ve had to make.

you've done this so elegantly, knowing change as a friend...thats good...and your writing is as always marvelous.

suthern

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11 posted 2006-02-06 04:32 PM

Can you see how I knew it all so well?

Yes... seeing is easy through your words. *S* And you present the known-intimately-yet-no-longer-quite-familiar so very well... so very poignantly. *S*

And... smiling at your "play" with dimensions... *S* A snapshot tells many and varied stories when you're doing the showing. *S*

Wonderful work!!!

JL
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12 posted 2006-02-06 04:50 PM

"soon it will all be strange to me
and I won’t walk here ever,
not even in memory."

Difficult conclusion to hear, yet too true to ignore.
Enjoyed.

JL

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