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Invisible clouds of methane rise
from the thawing tundra,
and from bubbles
percolating in the northern sea

And from god-forsaken
tank-farms of grief.
With my special diet,
these high-tech glasses

And in spite of my best
attempts at denial,
I can clearly see
the specter of extinction

Afoot in the land.
I took a walk
before the reception
and I spotted a homeless man

At the intersection
that I recognized.
Padre! Father!
An eagle dropped

Upon an octopus
trapped in a net. But the
sunset is so beautiful and
somewhere the northern lights

That I have never seen
coruscate Joni Mitchell's little green.
When I was little
someone gave me

A floating stone.
I played with it in the bathtub,
watching it float around.
From where I sit

I can see a wedding dress
in a shop window.
I can't take my eyes off it.
It is numinous.

Three days a week
I play a pedal organ
in an old hall
for a man who cannot walk

Or speak, but he can hear
as well as a moth.
I think he is a savant.
When he laughs

He laughs with abandon.
His eyes tear and flow
and grow very wide.
I pull out all the stops

And play enormous chords:
cello flute oboe violin tympani,
pedaling furiously
swelling the sound

To fill all the corners
and crevasses of the grieving
world. When I stop
he is staring at me in wonder.

As the waves of sound
subside, he looks sad
and slumps. Then I
wheel him out of the hall.

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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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