Summer 2005

Summer 2005

DAVID DOC COTE APPEARANCES No one knows one's neighbor's hidden heart - plenitudes of grief, cascades of joy Each by each we breathe our calendars, tumble our days, our moments, into years Nature devours itself, though nothing is lost. Herbivore and carnivore eat their fill. The omnicycle maintains balance - inscrutible design, profligate the plan. Everything has value sustaining every thing. Even the mayfly supplies sustenance, sacrificial its offerings in its brevity. How meditation resolves enigma. How love, to bloom, must give itself away. How time reminds us we are temporary, microsecond flashes in transitory time. How mind tranforms notation into music. How body performs to mind's direction. How nothing compares to dawnsong melody. How the ancient adage is ever true: The answer to why is because. How the unknowable must be god. How the final lesson is humility. for the Pablo Neruda Celebration, 6/12/04, Blackbird Books, Nashua NH

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