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Images come to me from a deep place.

A broken story from far away.


A man is running down seven flights of stairs.

A dog is barking at a cow who has taken something.


A baby is finger-painting in her crib.

I have agreed to officiate at a funeral.


I can't remember the name of the deceased.

I slip out a back door and begin to run.


I keep trying to remember the name of the dead man.

Manny? Marvin? Victor? Torvald? No, that is from Ibsen.


I am trying not to laugh.

I join a marathon to blend in.


We pass a farm.

I hide in a haystack.


I see a patrol car with flashing lights.

They are prowling the farm searching for me.


The farmer sees me but he keeps working.

I am watching him work through the hay.


Now I remember the name of the deceased.

It is Torvald (after all) - a Norwegian farmer.


"He loved his work.

He loved his animals."


In the distance there is lightning or bombs.

Everyone has gone to shelters.


I wake thinking, "Nothing will be the same anymore.

I can relax."


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Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and (more...)
 

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