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In the Everglades…
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Mais oui, dey tried to teach me
how to read back at school.
Mais book learnin’ didn’t stick wit’…
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He didn’t realize
After an isolated childhood,
When he started out
To see what might be going on
Elsewhere in the world,
That there would be
A final exam…
Clifford Geertz, 1999 Charles Haskins Lecture to the American Council of Learned Relations.
Dreamtime II.
A moment of confusion
And uncertainty of direction,
And an unlooked-for…
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(A found poem ~ just for fun...)
Dawn and dusk haven't mattered differently to me since I came here.
Neither have I found the seasons tied to the arrival of kites nor to their departure.
Not even the glow of fireflies or the songs of cicadas have anchored me
in some small way to natural…
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ContinueThe sun had begun to set over the Tswane Hills outside Pretoria, when the Rainbow Shelter boys wound up their regular soccer match and retreated to the main block. They left behind a ball in the net of the goal posts close to the wire fence that ran between the shelter and the back street. The black and white striped ball was visible from the graffiti-sprayed warehouse across the street, where ‘drop-in’ boys…
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(Found poem on the Adventures of Osa & Martin Johnson)
The Turkana were unaffected
by the giraffe-spotted flying…
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Outline
In order to escape the realism of the structure
which hypostatizes systems of objective relations …
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[Found Poem*]
The impure or unchaste
cannot touch me
without gloves;
only those who’ve known
no adultery,
or lost their chastity
after marriage;…
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[Found poem]
Abdisalem Hadthi and his son cowered
in the quiet of their living room,
at each torrent of bullets
that rained on the limestone brick
and mortar walls outside.
A unit of Gaddafi's gunmen burst…
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