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just as you pass,i stop in walkto ‘llow you rush over me;your touch,from distance, calmedto cool the skinas heart, rising, rises in cagefor feel of you.your shadow-movement,motioned a’top and ‘neaththe hands, the palms,knucks, forearms,cheeks, face,body-whole.iinhale you,hoping fore to know you imay hold you inside,filling lungs and chestand cavity of the mindwith what radianceyou wash the [...]

He reaches to her.She shakes him off and walks away.His head lays limp to claviclesand he walks the other way.She shouts something he cannot hearfrom across the room, buthe’s already deep within himselfagain.A draft falls, sideways, across himand he lowers his shoulders to the floor,knees bending so as not to break,and his heels lift off.
Giving [...]

At the request of the murdered boy’s parents, the crowdswalked silently and without signs of political affiliation
with respect to the family and the individuals involved,this is the most moving display of humanity i’ve witnessed.80,000 people walking, together, for one movement, for onereason, without anything between them but camaraderie andpeace.
anger isn’t the best way to cope [...]

Photograph by NASA, digitized by Corbis Corporation © 1996
The Greatest View

No matter how many times astronauts have photographed Earth during two decades of space shuttle missions, the image in the rearview mirror has never become routine: that perfect blue marble, whorled with white, suspended against blackest space.

Pasted from < http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/space/wallpaper06.html>
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behind the child’s smile rests the tongueof a woman. above, her eyes hide inmarble a fire’s flame. that smile pulled meto the stretch of frown and sadly i fellback from her.. a needed pacing as shestands so full above me.. and iwonder/wait for her to breathe so i mayfeel her breeze along these [...]

and beneath these thoughts of failure, ofnever being able to walk infront of youwithout crawling at your sight, i pilememories so tightly as to suffocate theeyes, to swell the sinuses. in this pilerests you and me, though only one willever really be.

i love the mundane. the average,everyday, routine greetings between us.the “hii”, the “herro”. i love them morebecause i know just about everyonegreets everyone the same. i don’t haveto fear you saying the same tosomeone else, because i know you do. it’sthe personal, indepth conversations i can’tstop being afraid of. if [...]

just another monologue
i parted the seas to see you;broke down on the way,hoped you’d wait, buti guess time rolls on,even for everyone;tried to map the route from afar,but nothing goes as planned;the paper’s just a scribblewith no means of bringingyou closer to me.

if only we could purchase and discardinterchangeable hearts, i could speakto you, throw out that old, brokenbone-pumper, replace it with abrand-shiny-new, crimson ticker ’tilits time runs out; i’ll be standingwhile you watch the remnantsof that rusty-bubbled spare partspill over lips to be painted with theblackest red– just hold on a second,i’ll switch them and you [...]

“But, it’s not fair. I.. I never had my chance. It’s not fair!”
“You’re right.”
“What can we do? How do I regain my chance?”
“You can’t.”
“Who am I, but a humble servant of the west-blown winds. How may I challenge the aristocracy of this town? By never buying but a penny’s worth [...]