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Paltry Things

Haven't really been around, last 20 yrs or so - not writing much new, but here's a fooling around one:

PALTRY THINGS

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I find meaning in

paltry things

meanness in greatness I

find

over-arching wonder in

the picayune; the small voices

of new flowers, in details

chance encounters I

find

meaning everywhere meaning

I had not seen, had not

seen when in my cups those

40 years, I find

you burrowed in my bed

warm and nurturing

squirmy and comforting

snuffling into half wakedness

coiling into me I find

meaning in the need of the thrush

for the sweet ironies

of last year’s maunderings, loneliness

can evaporate

as the bursting of a ripe plum

fulsome rather than sere, I find

meaning in partridges because

they seem to fit

the ethos of the moment

-30-

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