Knowledge · The room was stark and gray, with only a cot and a bench and a metal desk framing a firm tall gentleman in crisp shirt and dull blue tie regarding me with sad and patient eyes. I sat on the bench. “I am sorry sir,” he said and then told me that …
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BTT #57: Love Is Not A Square
Love is Not a Square ° Love will not Hold you In a box Or claim your Past, or mark you Waiting out Far off. ° It just embraces Where lines of Frets and strings Curve to pluck A tightened sound From softened edges And patient circling Of one eternal round. ° -Lona Gynt, June …
BTT #54: Rabbit, Wolf, Blossom, and the Wind.
Rabbit, Wolf, Blossom, and the Wind · Rabbit trembled, Awakening from nothing Into loneliness. Wolf sniffed, "You are many," he breathed, Eyes gleaming. "I am one," she answered "Blossoms are many, Steeped in morning glisten." Blossom quivered Beneath her paw. Wind drifted Back softly Stilling their hunger, Whispering one word... · "Listen." · -Lona Gynt, …
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BTT #52: Entanglement
Entanglement We gaze out empty to the world and try to see a plan and place and purpose neatly wrapped and packaged up in bundles showing how to be bound up with another, in common orbit mapped. But only the smallest quanta join together at distance, not just rounding out their separate rings. …
BTT #51: Flint River
Flint River · I had once Watched these cold waters With the calm Precision Of one who had decided To Sink beneath them. · Another River is flowing In this bed From that day When promises filled pockets With the weight of stones · Walking now Upon a gray path On the bank, Stones just …
BTT #50: Driving to the Kolob Canyons with Grandfather, 1987.
Driving to the Kolob Canyons with Grandfather, 1987 ∞ He gazed at the Red light emerging Above the rocks As if it were An undiscovered grace, While I watched the Double yellow lines Weave silently beside us. Draperies of sand Billowed and flowed Along the ridge tops, Leaping and then Descending to their rest, In …
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BTT #49: Soap Dispenser – Montgomery – Alabama – 2018
Soap Dispenser - Montgomery - Alabama - 2018 · We’re here because we just want to wash our hands After making waters. As blood whispers out upon the lands · I hear the chains of sons and stolen daughters. Why did God make light After making waters · To place the birth of civil right …
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BTT #48: Come Soft Snows
· · Come Soft Snows · Come Soft Snows. Let fall the hush That renders Ceres Still. Hold fast yet, When hope her Sleeping silence keeps Beneath the whited hill. · -Lona Gynt, January 1984 · All rights reserved for text and pictures to Lona Gynt, November 2018. · Posted for dVerse, Open Link Night …
BTT #47: Why Do We Lie?
· Why Do We Lie? Lying lends Breath to power, Unleashing wolves Sniffing, Rending Any whelp Hefting truth Into the air. · Lying lends Space for love, Delicately tangling In loam Between us, But twisting Spoiling Withering Underneath the sun. · And, Oh yeah, Almost forgot... Sometimes it’s just plain fun. - 😏 Lona Gynt …
BTT #46: From Walls of Silence
From Walls of Silence • A dog lifts its Head in the desert. Decapitated or otherwise Disembodied or maybe Just buried, It seems to rest Upon a curved patch Of something brown Which could be The infant slopings Of a mountain Or a grave or A dune of sand or maybe Just the ephemera Of …
