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H. F. D.

Originally published in Breaking Open (1973) From you I learned the dark potential theatres of the acts of man holding on a rehearsal stage people and light. You in your red hair ran down the darkened aisle, making documents and poems in their people form the play. Hallie it was from you I learned this: you told the company in dress-rehearsal in that ultimate equipped buildingwhat they lacked: among the lighting, the sight-lines, the acoustics, the perfect revolving stage, they lacked only one thing the most important thing.It would come tonight: The audiencethe response Hallie I learned from you this [...]

2023-09-04T20:54:12+00:00December 4, 2018|Poetry, Writings|0 Comments

Song : Love In Whose Rich Honor

Originally published in The Speed of Darkness  (1968) Love in whose rich honor I stand looking from my window over the starved trees of a dry September Love deep and so far forbidden is bringing me a gift to claw at my skin to break open my eyes the gift longed for so long The power to write out of the desperate ecstasy at last death and madness

2026-04-08T18:29:39+00:00November 18, 2018|Poetry, Writings|0 Comments
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