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November 16, 2005

Snapshot 16 November 02005

Sometimes the sky
is a van Gogh sky. Once
I saw a dragon there.
Yesterday in Thailand
the people sent lanterns
up into the night sky
with all their sins
and sadness. What
is my share of the sins
of our leaders? Is there
a lantern for that? Tonight
the moon is full and the sky
is thick with snow; falling stars
for all the burning children.

Snapshot Poems 2005

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Cathy

November 18, 2005 at 5:38 pm

That was perfect in everthing!

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Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Snapshot 16 November 02005

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