Sometimes the clearest prose leads us astray from our birthright to babble. If there are no wild spaces between words and phrases, no voids of sense or gaps in logic then language becomes programatic, topic-driven, over-civilized. It's easy to forget how wild language is at heart because we pride ourselves in controlling it. But there is poetry with huge soul locked within the most generic prose.

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Ink blot

Cross burnings

Into a corner

Black butterfly

Voice of the little

Pinball machine

Suburban garage

The fourth world

Day four anyone

Familiar names

Dogs and parakeets

There's more to it

Those who lived

Sense of rage

Sort of thing

Had a modicum

Clings to your finger

Pull the cork

Model of how

To accept his own

Tribal consciousness

Observed plant forms

Not quite right

At some point

They need healing

Being addressed

Grotto was protected

When you return

Another case

Illness hits one

The most familiar

Vegging out calm

By their memories

I suddenly noticed

Psychic wavelength

And fortifications

Fertile openings

Walking along thinking

Black butterfly

Surgery is optional

Okay to stop

Really know people

Especially these days

Recognize our relatives

Lift the spirit

We would change

For a viable future

What exactly does

Implies a return

Digestive problem

Too bad, but

Statistical sample

In the quad

Decide to open

Meaning behind

Empty space

You pick it

Road back down

To figure out

One of them

Better for them

Asked this of her

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Authors Website: https://garylindorff.wordpress.com

Authors Bio:

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 a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.


He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.