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No Poem Today

Posted on December 17, 2024 by bobjanisdillon

No poem todayIt’s cold, it’s rainy,and I don’t care to wrestmeaning from it all. Alone and full,I draw down the eye-curtains,let the honeyed and convivial darkbe the universe for me.

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35 degrees

Posted on December 17, 2024 by bobjanisdillon

I have learned, at last, to appreciate 35 degrees,not as an intrepid explorer on the world’s smallest Everest,but as a middle-aged Dad,the happy remnants of several good meals lining his waist,his dog pulling him past the melting white lumps on … Continue reading →

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Doing Nothing

Posted on December 17, 2024 by bobjanisdillon

For Jana, in C (possibly) Well I’ve been a long time in this world,And I’ve seen some incredible things,I discovered a pearlon the old tilt a whirl,And then they let me pull the strings. I played with the tigers in … Continue reading →

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Scheduled Attempts at Delight

Posted on May 12, 2022 by bobjanisdillon

In December, the people turn their attentionto joy.We don’t do it well, of course:the baubles are tacky, the sales crowded,we line up in a fifty-minute queueto see exactly what we already knew was going to happen,happen just as we knew … Continue reading →

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Safecracker

Posted on May 12, 2022 by bobjanisdillon

happinesscan be cultivatedperhapsboil the kettle for a cup of teaor go for a walkor write a twelve-part novel on the love life of the urban sasquatchand happiness could easily growin facthappiness is a little like crabgrassit doesn’t take all that … Continue reading →

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