the sun

if I doubt
If I fail
…the Sun

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'spider-catcher.'

Life

Life
that great Festival
of our present moment

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'precede.'

smoothly downwind

there is not
a simple path
smoothly Downwind
at the control
of the driver

It is possible
to become free
but i still wait
for a kind of
Gold Mine
of strength

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'overlap.'

happy people

happy people
rarely
fill the void
believing that success
would be Free

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'conscript.'

this glory

This glory
(as I may call it),
what a spirit!

Nothing was visible
but clouds and salt water,
Something of a Secret
soft and Melancholy
Elixation we keep

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem |commentary is 'seething.'

the art of contentment

We rejoiced
in The Art of
Contentment

That thing
which has caused
A ripple
of laughter

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'discomfiture.'

rare originals

Now rare
our Originals with
a distinct character woven into
Daily good Times

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The OED word of the day for the poem | commentary is 'prototype.'

I was thinking that at the end of a year the media lists all the people we've lost, but usually not the places.

RIP Alki Bakery

winter sunset

winter sunset
king salmon swimming across
the horizon

conjecture

My conjecture is
that there is,
below the surface
of Time,
a continuous gift
that flows
hidden in My heart
more blest
than heart can tell

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'undercurrent.'

with a color

One might
dislocate the universe
with a color
in a Delicate-handed Poem

The Power
of The poet
to offer
the unthinkable

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'banded.'