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Poetry as History. History as Catharsis. Catharsis as Poetry.

Passion Release / Fear Release

Passion Release

wordless heat speaks, spoken
flooded delta passion skin
expectant thrusting root taken
unending shiver trivial want
cavernous pool tremor reflection

Fear Release

emotional buoy washing overunder
unfolding fear coursing barrier
unhindered tear battering soil
binding interference cable ready
refracted diffusion illusory fracture

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Now

it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Create

If

Behavior is our presence in the here and now, how we make our world, then History must be our unshaped clay, the context of our labors. To act without minding History is to act without purpose.

2000.03.11

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Passion Release / Fear Release

Now

short-term memory

If