Hans Ostrom Poems

Killing is not possible on the Other Side.
One variation of God, though, will want
to hunt empty-rifled with my father, greet
a blue morning open-coated, snort pine air,
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"That there is something is the first, most obvious, and best known thing conceived by our intellect and all the rest follows" - Umberto Eco, Kant and the Platypus
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culinary difficulty

your goose is cooked
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sierra nevada see

air over nevada
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She's a solitary book. She

wants a shelf all to herself.
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I pray to Saint Anonymous,

a martyr without publicity.
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Creature brains feature
lanes nature grooved
as species moved into
spaces over time with
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Being a professor
is like being a lounge singer.
It's hard work.
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unfriendly sky
new garden leaves shiver
the crows flap hard against the wind
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I think an affidavit should be something
different from a legal statement. An affidavit
should be a mythical bird or a frenetic folk dance.
Or perhaps a ritual response in a liturgy.
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