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Collected Poetry

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Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  For Ricki on Her 40th Birthday


Within the tumescent light something arbitrary hovers
deftly expressing its subtle wishes as action,

or prescience, or, the mundane administrations
of simple manifestation.  Gainfully, dutifully, it dwells:

two fellow employees share a non-work-related chat
in a narrow hall—as you pass you do sense

their good spirits and that aspect of the light
which is filled with much flotage; you either inhale,

sneeze, or ignore it.  And you might ask how this
will affect your waning fertility—but you don't

passing it off as one more incidental question
no one in their right mind would stop to consider.



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