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original poems by Janice Sandeen

Turn(Around and)Around

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Stuck in(one)place once

now every place and no

place is belonging to me

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World between worlds

where do you(two)dwell?

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Sands of the ocean

at my back sky above

what is what seems(three)seeming

space and solid(and me)

changing places

resting now in sky

what is what now

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(Four)Everything that moves

is Spirit Incarnate

we know–con-science–we are not solid

not even attached but

rooted somehow else

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Things we make/take are part

of us and yet we(five)are entire

free naked whole without

any of these creature objects

or with, the same

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(Six)th sense

I rest

(Here)

[ ] loose

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I invite you to visit this poem as published on IMUNURI another blog I write poems with others through weekly prompts. This particular poem does not easily translate onto this site, as its ‘writing’ was also a process of cutting away, which you will see when you visit IMUNURI.

http://imunuri.blogspot.com/2012/05/loose.html

ho me o st as is perfect i on

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the times turning in toward their tides

tracking invisibly torusing

trail? follow? coursing?

all this

work of pineal

gray matter

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all systems changing let it

arise as is

perfect i on

seeding this silver lined

cloud

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mechanism? birth? knowing?

somanypeopletellingotherpeoplewhattodowhatnottodo

is this breathing

is this dying

and within?

whereforeartthou        we pray forgetting

what is it?

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sympathetic parasympathetic

(we cannot digest

if we cannot

rest)

up regulate

preparing down

regulate flight

syn

aptic

trans

miss

ion

neuro transmitting

oeuvre 4 ~ (my)other

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the work the work the work

finally climbing climbing

however fall and free

fanciful fine underneath

fallowing now can not

flow which between

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underneath it spends en

capsulating for tune

wroth and blow beater

bar brushandbrush

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under over over upon

sweeping past the hollyhocks

cast elate Queen source house

daisy tulip tip tap top

trim and heap swallow

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cannot the cry sound clear

mixing colors meant to be(never

feeding fancy)full plates

remain(ing) stand

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this was requested

request ahead before

after through and to

(an)other ǝɹʌnǝo

ɯıʍs oʇ ƃuıoƃ sɐʍ

only now to sing

Iota

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thought presupposes thought

first last before after ahead behind

inner outer within without interior exterior

outer inner without within exterior interior

last first after before behind ahead

you are thinking are you

are you thinking you are

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listen as a sound emerges

and then drops away

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where is the start

where is the end

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what precedes the imperceptible

where does anything go

as it ceases to be visible

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this is the appetizer

hors d’oeuvre

for the work

ahead

time swallowed whole

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time |tīm|
noun
1 the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole

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Fr ee Move ment

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Bound less out side of time

Yes exist ence so clear ly bleeds

through all truth s

sim ultaneously if only

watching hap pens

happen stance ly marking s

open out the con straints

Gen uis in spirit

nev er separate d

not ever

fractal  f r a c t a l   f  r  a  c  t  a  l

what Brings it to get her

takes it a part

kin esthetics

This being Human

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This being human   is rather strange

in the pause   the gap   where this thing

we call time

turns upside down inside out

into itself upon itself

and dissolves

 

When time is out of the picture

what remains   what remains

timelessness not as concept

not as something

to achieve

or arrive at

or even as replacement

 

What of the ways you track

yourself   what

do you measure according

to marks and hours and days

time and money interwoven

under   over

what carries what

 

How can you meet yourself

outside of time   what other

references no longer hold

when toys are left to rest

in the toy box

as the heart calls you full to

find your flowering   being   flowering

 

 

 

Emptying out, emptying in

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Turning inside out inside out

like the cycle of clothes around

the column of the wash tub

like water cascading, interfolding

into a deep crevice of a stream bed

my cells, my being, my heart

circulate, become renewed, nourished

celebrating

holding nothing

needing nothing with everything

that is

as it is all that is

 

It is naked to not have anything that needs

building, reinforcing, protecting, controlling

 

Temporary disorientation

more abiding elation

returning to what is

what is     is what is

 

A new

anew

Self Inquiry

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