Category Archives: Your Monday Blessing

Dirt Wars

Posted on May 12, 2022 by bobjanisdillon

Not a lot of people know this, butwhen dirt has wars with other dirt,they threaten to reduce each other to human being.They may even call each other human being –or (in a civilized conflict)they root through the internetto dig up … Continue reading →

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Shrove Tuesday

Posted on May 12, 2022 by bobjanisdillon

In 2022, on Shrove Tuesday,forty miles of Russian tanks drove into Kiev,as a global climate report announced that more parts of the planetwould soon be hot, underwater, rife with mosquitos, or extinct.The pandemic had been going for two years. It … Continue reading →

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Dedication

Posted on May 12, 2022 by bobjanisdillon

Written on your heart are the words“This heart is dedicated to _________”After that comes playing the piano,or Maude, or the sacred mantra of your children’s names.Some names have been crossed out, and you can barely make outthe letters beneath all … Continue reading →

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Pandemic Merlin

Posted on May 12, 2022 by bobjanisdillon

Somewhere, probably,in the Cornish caves,Merlin reflects that the worst has already happened,and is yet to be.The grail has been lost, and found,and will be lost again,the table sundered, communion givenand ripped apart. As a journeyer both waysupon the bifurcated seconds,Merlin … Continue reading →

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five short poems

Posted on May 12, 2022 by bobjanisdillon

The lake ice cracksSea monsters unseenSo it must be warmth in the air A poetic still life:a few pears, a plum, in a bowllight reaching the same through a window,and just out of the frame,a doleful unicorn. I know they … Continue reading →

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When You Can’t Even

Posted on May 12, 2022 by bobjanisdillon

Here is something you can do. Place your shoulder.Or back. Or belly. Leg, arm. The firmness of your foot.Some part of you.Against the ground, gently.Or the linoleum floor. Or the sofa. Or sit.You might close your eyes. Then, rock. Gently.Rock … Continue reading →

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For Those Who Have Been Wronged

Posted on May 12, 2022 by bobjanisdillon

They don’t always get it right,you know. The counsellor can’t read his own handwriting,the judge’s breakfast weighs on his decisions,the banking software forgets to carry the one. Boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife:all of these, words around a hope,the hope itself fastenedto … Continue reading →

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Exist

Posted on April 19, 2021 by bobjanisdillon

Lately, I’ve been putting prayer on the to-do list.I know, I know: there’s something spiritually amiss about this,a lack of authentic devotionality, a careless mix-up ofthe self-help priorities. Worse, it’s sometimes sixth, or seventh on the list.Some days, I don’t … Continue reading →

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An Alien Astronomer Reports on System B^DX4-2

Posted on April 5, 2021 by bobjanisdillon

System B^DX4-2 is a promising one. A single mid-size star, with a number of planets in orbit – 6 visible. Gravity tables put the likely total at somewhere between 8 and 16. Star 1-B^DX4-2 is just post-midlife, stable ordinary. Nothing … Continue reading →

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The Trick

Posted on March 23, 2021 by bobjanisdillon

The trickis to open your handswide enoughto hold the sunrise

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