[lit-ideas] Re: Ancestral Dialectics
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 15:23:39 -0600
I like it. A keeper for sure.
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> From New England in the Seventeenth
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> Century they moved west, many of them,
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> Stopping in Indiana and Illinois for
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> The Civil War and then came further
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> West. What does it now mean
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> That I have lived so long near
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> The Pacific, swimming, diving,
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> Spearing fish, sailing to Japan
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> And back again? Was it Japan
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> And Korea I truly sought?
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> I thought so for a while,
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> Reaching toward them to touch
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> But came back again. That couldn’t
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> Have been it. I’ve since moved
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> Part way up a mountain and sit
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> By a window watching a low-hung
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> Cloud full, or partly so, of rain
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> Which won’t be salty like the sea
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> But perhaps just what I need to
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> Determine which direction I should take,
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> Whether to pull further back or move on
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