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January 24, 2024
One time I saw a man
By Gary Lindorff
There were no cars on the road / .No cars coming or going / .Only he was coming.
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One time I saw this:
I saw a man coming down the middle of the road
With a hoe on his shoulder and from the hoe swung a bucket.
There were no cars on the road.
No cars coming or going.
Only he was coming.
When I saw this man I asked myself,
Who is this man?
Why is he coming like that?
And where is he going?
It seemed like this must mean something.
I thought it was special.
I was glad that I was there to see him
Coming along like that.
He was walking down the road
Like it belonged to him.
I think he was wearing a hat, a baseball hat.
I think he was an archetype,
The archetype of a new kind of man.
That was a long time ago.
I don't know what happened to him.
I don't know what happens to any of us.
(Article changed on Jan 24, 2024 at 9:24 AM EST)
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.