Robert Ronnow Poems

Numerous number systems beyond the real:
complex numbers, octonions, omnions which can eat
      whole black holes.
It's axiomatic that your personal history, preferences,
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I like his confidence, that working the problem
will certainly result in better outcomes than guessing.
A rationalist who does not depend on a higher power
to direct his decisions, but who may concede,
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What kind of day was it. Clean
the house. Notice the full moon.
Read a sheaf of old poems.
Listen to jazz tunes. Open mail.
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Ectopic heart
beat. Acoustic
neuroma. Sleep
apnea. Getting
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We like trees.
Rocks. Crows.

Trees are good.
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Generally cheerful institutions
school and hospital, The Constitution,
roadways with their yellow stitch lines.
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snow.
A year
in which
each day
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Rhodora in winter, capsule like a claw,
remains of the 5-part flower Emerson saw,
gone to seed. Deciduous trees and shrubs
have their own winter beauty and a power
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First person singular prohibited. In order
to be more crow.
War! war! war! war! war!
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