tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88291043584413540282024-03-12T18:54:43.811-07:00denisianpressDenishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.comBlogger477125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-89206370187509165592023-05-15T17:49:00.002-07:002023-06-07T18:18:43.269-07:00Tunnels<div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The chewmack is fuzzy in the night air</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Making you wonder</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WTF is he talking about</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It's just an earthworm chewing through the center screen</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Soaking up the limelight</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Asking it's fellow gypsies what to do</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With the spots in the moon</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It's not theirs to know</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nor desks to find</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That study the night air</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a sea of elbows and socks</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whereabouts unknown</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In cockle shells alive alive oh</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That pierce downstream</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Laying low their elbows in a raft</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Gauging temperatures below </span>I</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before flying and leaving</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Those wastelands of the mind</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That pickles the night air</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fowl as fox in a hornets nest</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yoweling for the cat to come in</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not listening to the change</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As night flashes by</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Purple mountains drink to stay warm</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Serving beverage of nights past</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cracking the bottle, pour the wine</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It's not me. I'm still here</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Callibrating the six and nine</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For winter fest, summer is here</div><div class="elementToProof" dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Right between the arrows</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of humankind and ashes</div><div class="elementToProof" dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not ours for the knowing</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But passing days for discovering</div><div class="elementToProof" dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Which way is that</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And why is becoming</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fashioning the grade</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The lights are out</div><div class="elementToProof" dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heroes want to know</div><div class="elementToProof" dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The trays they're in</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is not just another school lunch</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Boxes open shut case</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There's laughter, but no one's there</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A wiping nose, a tepid stream</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Circles round you</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When this become about me?</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It always has been</div><div class="elementToProof" dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gone away</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bed waiting</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tunnels</div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;" /></div><div dir="auto" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Denis Streeter 5/12/23</div>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-5369419720793803802022-04-25T17:43:00.000-07:002022-04-26T09:03:56.563-07:00Nursery rhyme<p> <br /></p><div class="elementToProof" dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Strawberry rhubarb</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jumped in a jar</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Little they know </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Didn't get far</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Denis Streeter 4/23/22</div>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-83792317297721497452021-12-29T17:05:00.000-08:002021-12-29T17:05:00.066-08:00Scotch Blue<p>The six pack looks like<br />A bottle of fine Scotch</p><p>Denis Streeter 12/29/21</p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-85239886551448038322021-12-22T18:34:00.002-08:002021-12-24T22:37:21.158-08:00a work pun<p> <span color="inherit" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">I asked my lumber customer if he wanted a bag, then thought of this:</span></p><blockquote style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" type="cite"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Q: What do you call a small bag?</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A: A baguette.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He didn't get it. Even when I explained how a cigarette is a small cigar.</div><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He was in an all-business mood, so I shrugged my shoulders and let him move on.</span></div></div></blockquote><p> <br />Denis Streeter 12/22/21</p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-78424579146403457402021-12-11T22:56:00.002-08:002021-12-29T17:12:11.833-08:00Sarcasm equals<div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I love it when it's busy and no one gives me useful information. <span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was trying to unlock something, and m</span><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">y coworker told me to use the unlocking tool in a way that is wrong. Another told me to cut the tool open with scissors. Not a chance. Then the customer tells me it was a gift for his wife. Shit. I tell him he can swap it out. He says can I get that gift wrapped? I tell him it's not in the warranty and walk away. Later I find out there is no way for us to unlock that. It wouldn't have set off any alarms. They are supposed to use pliers and a wrench to pry it open. Happy Holidays. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Denis Streeter 12/11/21</span></div>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-29256229547241264032021-09-11T21:40:00.000-07:002021-09-11T21:40:57.823-07:00Work<p>It's a strange world<br />What do we become<br />At the end of the week we want to forget<br />All the unpleasantness<br />Watch tv<br />Like Abbot and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde<br />Aquaman<br />It's a waste of time<br />I could be doing something more productive like reading<br />But writing seems to do more<br />Of a chronicle<br />I'm not sure it makes me feel any better<br />It just makes me recognize more of what I'm feeling<br />Why I hate work<br />When I'm not at work, I think about going back to work<br />How will I deal with that<br />It's a matter of withstanding mental blows<br />From customers who smell blood and dare you to make mistakes<br />So they can punish you<br />It's true, most people are fine<br />Perhaps it's all in my mind, but I don't think so<br />Ultimately it comes down to yourself<br />How do you protect yourself<br />From being constantly watched for mistakes<br />Authority is basically made of stupid rules<br />Or demeaning principles<br />You are an actor<br />The world is watching<br />It's wearing you down<br />You need to recharge<br />How you recharge is up to you<br />Where will you go<br />What will you do<br />Is there prayer<br />Or Jesus<br />Or God<br />That will make everything better<br />Or just bearable enough<br />Perhaps it's observing enough<br />Where love breathes through<br />There's safe passage</p><p>Denis Streeter 9/11/21</p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-83387001663288194552021-09-02T18:06:00.001-07:002021-09-02T18:13:52.273-07:00Sawhorse<p>Customer: I'm looking for a sawhorse<br />Me: How much saw could a sawhorse saw if a sawhorse could cut saw.<br />Customer: Laughs, then says "Huh?"<br />Me: No answer. It doesn't make sense and I'm not sure it's funny.<br />Me: I direct him to tools.</p><p>Denis Streeter 9/2/21</p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-3267675819090129612021-07-11T15:51:00.002-07:002021-07-11T23:57:52.727-07:00reason for this<p>daftness barms <br />no alarm<br />of foolishness<br />a catapult away<br />drinking wine<br />a sashay<br />a trope<br />wanders sly<br />inbred with paint<br />on the horizon<br />felt a splash<br />deter a whale<br />out to sea<br />in a sieve<br />leaking a mountain<br />of grease<br />gas lit on empty<br />as you might expect<br />busy<br />in that ordinary way<br />business supplies<br />weighty<br />foster in rank<br />removing itching<br />from semaphores<br />dangerous banks<br />deck and ocean<br />not all bad<br />it's a place<br />where happiness<br />subsides<br />dungeons<br />are fakes<br />roadmaps<br />draw doors<br />let them in<br />rats on skewers<br />blistered things<br />grab my<br />petit fours<br />ounce our roundings<br />blank our ships<br />more to that<br />wide enough to go<br />traffic flow<br />gets in the way<br />guidance <br />sets you free<br />i don't know<br />i'm still here<br />drinking in me<br />sophomoric<br />teaching<br />turning gravestones<br />into flies<br />not sad so<br />busy overnight<br />chasing them out<br />set bed aflame <br />or not<br />wandered toes<br />fasten doors wide<br />toothpaste in<br />flour awry<br />and it goes<br />on<br />knows<br />on<br />until<br />it stops</p><p>denis streeter 7/11/21</p><p><br /><br /></p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-67106177275035973242021-06-15T21:13:00.001-07:002021-06-15T21:22:18.624-07:00flight<p>breath<br />breathed into silence<br />a broken wing stripped clean<br />hollow bone<br />egg glue creation<br />an instrument<br />flewn of ancient <br />flute through<br />true to its<br />its what<br />its form<br />laughing <br />bone draws sky<br />music from hollow<br />shift ears eyes heart<br />mind an empty shell waiting to be filled<br />searching wisdom <br />bone waits becoming <br />depth fills tiny holes<br />an ocean gladness<br />fills mind<br />flewn ears eyes heart soul<br />senses one<br />capture them<br />bone holes music<br />you can fly<br />you can sing<br />you can know</p><p>denis streeter 6/15/21</p><p>Inspired by David Almond's book <i>Bone Music</i></p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-14036409417795391562021-06-08T17:56:00.000-07:002021-06-08T17:56:55.112-07:00poetry in motiona kind of learning<div>i don't know what it is</div><div>a kind of transforming</div><div>i don't know what it is</div><div>leads me to strange places</div><div>rooms i wander</div><div>circular directions</div><div>take me home</div><div>to where i am more myself</div><div>whatever that is</div><div>ever since i was a little boy, i always wanted to be</div><div>a philosopher</div><div>theologian</div><div>thinker not betrayer</div><div>no judas in me</div><div>i've lived a life not knowing who i am</div><div>a teacher of sorts, in the pure sense</div><div>i learn from them, they learn from me</div><div>just not an automaton </div><div>i want to speak my mind and not muffle it</div><div>there's the rub</div><div>does it make you employable?</div><div>know your strengths</div><div>know others</div><div>then you can know yourself</div><div>but does that ever happen?</div><div>this introversion not good for me</div><div>i must dance</div><div>i hear music that moves my soul</div><div>and in the dance i forget myself</div><div>there is nothing but perfect motion</div><div>bluegrass</div><div>deeper livelier than anything i know</div><div>poetry in motion</div><div>and with that poetry comes wit</div><div>is it?</div><div>or song</div><div>singing connectedness to each situation</div><div>through my bones</div><div>that feels eternal</div><div>universal</div><div>completely myself</div><div><br /></div><div>denis streeter 6/8/21</div><div><br /></div>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-40695752352891851892021-06-01T15:53:00.001-07:002021-06-01T15:53:28.543-07:00A kind of respect<p> </p><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Worms may be savvy </div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Their burrowing ways</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moles for reflection</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Turning upward</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is it religion</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is that the right thing to say</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heaven opens</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is that a sunrise</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Interpretation</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seems like such a flat word</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intellectuals use to put you down</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But not under</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Worms search metaphors</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Find them flavorless</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We are not worms</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They reside in us</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Take samples of us</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Destroy us </div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In our eden</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is worm the snake</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Choose your context</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bury or cremation</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For mother i chose cremation</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twice</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One for her body</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The other for burning pictures of her dead body</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sis took the pictures</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A sort of proof of her death</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Burning pictures a kind of respectful ceremony</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Backyard by the old garage</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A letting go</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She dreams inside my head</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Denis Streeter. 5/25/21</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /></div>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-1575028627879519162021-05-27T21:49:00.000-07:002021-05-27T21:49:28.935-07:00not haiku<div><br /></div><div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">under sunshine corridors</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bees are singing</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">doors are clinging</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">set them aside</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">jazz plays on</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">jangled rhythm</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">settles into groove</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">disappears</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sharp notes listen</div></div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">minor keys</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cleft it out</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wander gardens</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sneeze</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">disappear</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nothing but vapor</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hinted tracks</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">heckled hens</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">pay the piper</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a logjam or two</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">disappears</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">under sunshine corridors</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bees are singing</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cleft it out</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a salvo or two</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">keeps it interesting</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not exceptional</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not haiku</div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">denis streeter 5/27/21</div>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-59867561684317757752021-05-21T17:56:00.001-07:002021-05-24T08:51:38.638-07:00where i'm goingin the afterlife<div>a shade slow</div><div>beams forward</div><div>testing for angles</div><div>sharp edges</div><div>filing rasps </div><div>drink tea in bed</div><div>cushion testing</div><div>matter-o-fact</div><div>warming cooling</div><div>dusting for bees</div><div>rabbits for collars</div><div>wrench forward<br />in the afterlife</div><div>dogs wait</div><div>cats wander</div><div>a wrench of time</div><div>wrinkles yawns passes</div><div>where pools go</div><div>other side</div><div>dreaming </div><div>other things</div><div>indistinct</div><div>a comfortable way of dying<br />in the afterlife</div><div>waves branches and snores</div><div>walks away</div><div>a wrench </div><div>a water vein</div><div>happy</div><div>smiling</div><div><br /></div><div>denis streeter 5/21/21</div><div><br /></div>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-75237966278835954872021-05-18T15:47:00.001-07:002021-05-18T17:35:32.802-07:00Another Mayneism<p> </p><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of my favorite children's writers.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Been collecting his books for years.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /></i></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">He saw the horizon waiting to be set on paper and be seen forever, and went down again for paper and paint box, into the empty camp</i> [school boys from the city camping in the country], <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">where the wind moved tent- flaps and the smoke, one speaking like a thought in the night, and the other silent like the moment before sleep. Michael knew about both, because thoughts sometimes shouted at him when he was alone, and the sound of Northumberland Road would go away just before sleep came, though if he noticed they were gone he woke again. The camp was as lonely as a skeleton in a desert.</i></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></i></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">William Mayne, Summer Visitors, Oxford University Press, 1961, page 182</div>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-86855305827507254442021-05-09T21:15:00.002-07:002021-05-24T09:02:37.047-07:00lost in mind<p>discarded messages<br />read and disappear<br />it's not about folly, it's about reason<br />those sentences in between<br />reach out like barren altars<br />subsidized minds<br />turn the page<br />it's not here nor there<br />it's everywhere<br />fossil institutions<br />hidden floors<br />undercover dens<br />it's not scratch and sniff<br />it's scratch and disappear<br />turn the page<br />all those tongue twisters<br />all those drug altars<br />simmer for a minute<br />disappear<br />turn the page<br />for a nightstand and beer<br />taking lovely by its side<br />a fortune cookie<br />a magic oven<br />a dusty hide<br />turning pages set aside<br />by noon they are gone<br />tongue twisters hide<br />set to motion<br />dirty bins hot cross buns lefty lunch<br />it's as the badger says<br />drinks and goodbye<br />washes down his beer<br />starts over again<br />has a snort, leaves us behind<br />those pages keep turning<br />wondering learning<br />keeps going on<br />until it's gone<br />disappear</p><p>denis streeter 5/9/21</p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-34952874054366570042021-05-01T19:00:00.006-07:002021-05-01T21:23:19.086-07:00may day<p><i><b>most days are not as bad as this</b></i></p><p>it's just a cashier job<br />stones you couldn't look up<br />barcodes you couldn't read<br />customer who asked my name after i couldn't understand him<br />asked how long i worked there<br />i said three weeks<br />he said they need to train you better<br />it's just a cashier job<br />credit card reader didn't work in garden<br />three transactions in a row<br />customers paid cash<br />incredibly busy<br />i called the manager and he came about five minutes later<br />people kept moving out of my line and no one would help<br />it's just a cashier job<br />customers were good about helping me out<br />got to remember to have them take picture of scan code<br />my glasses steamed up in garden so i couldn't read numbers<br />kept taking them off to clean and put back<br />i forgot to give back a customer their $50 back<br />i thought i'd given it back<br />she went to my supervisor and complained about me<br />she gave the customer her $50<br />after all she is a regular<br />it's just a cashier job<br />messed up a cash increase<br />manager had to void it out and start over<br />and more i can't remember<br />'cause i don't want to remember<br />i tried so hard to get everything right<br />not forget<br />all i could think of is<br />i got to get out of here<br />makes me feel bad<br />it's just a cashier job</p><p>denis streeter 5/1/21</p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-40601484279466366822021-04-29T18:58:00.002-07:002021-04-29T18:58:38.313-07:00Before workRudder or not <div>Here I come</div><div><br /></div><div>Denis Streeter 4/29/21</div>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-44287263944250248952021-04-17T23:31:00.001-07:002021-04-24T19:27:08.383-07:00where i go<p>sharp pillow in the back written in pine<br />not much left to shine<br />pillow the moon<br />muffle the dream<br />catch the cow<br />moo the moon<br />needle in pine<br />what's left for you<br />this new direction<br />snores my pillow awake<br />don't that take the cake<br />knowing the rhyme is wrong<br />just for the sake of a so<br />so i've been told<br />but it's so easy and automatic<br />a computer could create it<br />if a computer was my brain<br />mapped out poorly<br />if not creatively<br />however that may be defined<br />these directions shift<br />like a caved in iron<br />an interrupted knee<br />a cavernous tree<br />a ruptured bee<br />it could go on<br />it might go on<br />it won't go on<br />i'll let it bee<br />go to sleep my little baby<br />the moon is nigh <br />the sound is nount <br />the ocean green</p><p>denis streeter 4/17/21<br /><br /></p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-81714901476588265412021-02-25T17:13:00.000-08:002021-02-25T17:13:36.867-08:00it's in the ways<p>when they disappear<br />they're all gone<br />gone with the wind<br />fledgling in a bowl<br />when the gift catches fire<br />there is no more<br />laughter in abundance<br />the news gone blind<br />blind with nothing left to do<br />gone around the campfire<br />watching what to do<br />a blind mess walking through<br />a surgeon's hat a messy coffin<br />trap doors open and shut<br />wandering what to do<br />a tree hides a ghost shivers<br />blind see deaf hear<br />wandering what to do<br />a grassy hat a toad a steer<br />passing over<br />what's wrong right between<br />a featherbed catches the worm<br />the rest are watching and praying<br />the bed looks comfortable<br />hiding a peculiar way<br />sun shines moon gathers dust<br />it's not in the telling<br />it's in the ways</p><p>denis streeter 2/25/21</p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-59179451209450909082021-02-06T13:24:00.001-08:002021-02-06T13:24:23.185-08:00where it goes<p>what is needed no more<br />a cast an olive an altar<br />state of being coincide<br />a beef a mule a fool<br />hiding behind the jester<br />open wide follow inside<br />jackrabbit lantern stew<br />follow inside you<br />open the door and follow some more<br />it's not that it will. it will<br />falter your horizons<br />testing doors that bathroom you<br />giving no asides<br />a pauper a pen a fool<br />live beside you<br />living on you<br />no flea for portable<br />just living on time<br />an order for living<br />spinner snap order that<br />a paper comes handy<br />merry go round <br />as luck would have it<br />in jester form<br />roundabout the floor rides<br />is it beer or booze<br />float the paper cake<br />cut from magazines<br />pulp for filling<br />sawdust for your mind<br />it's not so easy when you're joking<br />the joke disappears<br />what did you say<br />don't say that. it's not funny<br />that's okay, it's out of my mind<br />until some trick becomes fey<br />try another word will you<br />but words are hard to come by<br />most often misunderstood<br />and on the way down it's sleep<br />sometimes better that way<br />and then there's dreaming</p><p>denis streeter 2/6/21</p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-19432887503410847982021-01-31T22:36:00.001-08:002021-02-02T14:39:01.323-08:00transform<p>there are times<br />when I can look out on deck<br />and think that I am the luckiest man on the face of this planet<br />it's 10pm. i turn the deck light on<br />in the distance is rain streaked with light<br />words can't capture the magic<br />light and water comes closest<br />energy equals mass times the speed of light squared<br />this view from my deck<br />you can not see<br />you can not feel<br />is a moment of time<br />a moment of quiet elation<br />magic to bring the dark times light</p><p>denis streeter 1/31/21</p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-88395335114276334922020-11-21T15:58:00.003-08:002020-11-22T19:30:58.300-08:00history of the mind<p> </p><div>to pull a pick</div><div>to pick a pack</div><div>you don't want this</div><div>you just want that</div><div><br /></div><div>a bathroom tore</div><div>a flood of time</div><div>a stick of wool</div><div>to prick a rhyme</div><div><br /></div><div>a tinker ship</div><div>to troll the wool</div><div>a winding whip</div><div>to tame it full</div><div><br /></div><div>to add a job</div><div>you don't ask why</div><div>you do not add</div><div>you nair apply</div><div><br /></div><div>ice cream for plot</div><div>but don't know why</div><div>the dream's upset</div><div>the need not cry</div><div><br /></div><div>the creature said</div><div>just go to bed</div><div>or fish instead</div><div>inside your head </div><div><br /></div><div>you wake before</div><div>the raven's crow</div><div>just say no more</div><div>defer to poe</div><div><br /></div><div>you want some time</div><div>a little more</div><div>to eat a rhyme</div><div>you can't ignore </div><div><br /></div><div>i bid farewell</div><div>two lines are left</div><div>i know you won't</div><div>be much bereft</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>denis streeter 11/21/20</div>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-21339973595904688212020-11-12T22:25:00.007-08:002020-11-22T20:46:17.201-08:00a walking<p><br /></p><p>a bucket<br />a man<br />a riddle a plan<br />ride the barrel<br />round the block<br />where the fillings are fat<br />the chicken slow<br />the pitter pat<br />the fox you know</p><p>denis streeter 11/22/20</p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-25834925353930769092020-11-11T22:24:00.005-08:002020-11-22T20:07:06.643-08:00one fine day<p>two pots and a kettle<br />somebody left the whiskey on<br />it was dry as a bear and stiff as a creek<br />drinking leaves and tilling glasses<br />what the cats dragged in dogs shatter<br />gathering trees to milk their glasses<br />as the sun poured in<br />the ground began to flower<br />parched and wet and rye<br />still streams begin to dry<br />and bees begin to laugh<br />starched out of their minds<br />and labs flow and collies laugh<br />two doors begin to snow<br />and there was evening<br />next day<br />the crick began to fall, the ovens lit open<br />the time to tame the beast was done<br />it was tender and well baked <br />and the cornbread was wise as it was tall<br />a sickle creams<br />a donkey braise<br />doors gulp and gasp<br />and jesus sighed</p><p>denis streeter 11/11/20</p>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829104358441354028.post-33424983469411486152020-10-09T13:32:00.000-07:002020-10-09T13:32:48.527-07:00a jokesometimes delves right in heart of the matter<div>and doesn't even know it</div><div>a fly, a pence fly</div><div>and one of my earliest pieces</div><div><i>polka dotted horseflies</i></div><div><i>i do not ask them why</i></div><div><i>all i do is duck my head</i></div><div><i>and hope they pass me by</i></div><div>i can recite it without thinking</div><div>without thinking</div><div>some might turn and frown</div><div><i>you know that polka dotted horsefly you think is funny</i></div><div><i>was infected by the corona virus</i></div><div><i>my best friend was infected by the virus</i></div><div><i>and you have to talk about disease</i></div><div>and i find myself saying</div><div><i>that's not what i meant!</i></div><div>but it's too late now</div><div>the idea is stuck in their head</div><div>i find no words</div><div>no jokes</div><div>after all</div><div>covid is a serious matter</div><div><br /></div><div>denis streeter 10/9/20</div>Denishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801169909005552067noreply@blogger.com0