Robert Ronnow Poems

You may feel about the planet what
you feel about a great baseball team or band:
that once there was a moment when, unknown
to us at the time, we convened
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The circle closes over the dead woman's space.
Family and community heal, the scar tissue
between a young girl's breasts. She had
shared conversations with my father about
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Standing at back of cafeteria during youth basketball
      awards ceremony
This is my community.
'What you do may not seem important but it is very
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I cultivated at least two enemies yesterday
the enemies I wanted
I wanted them to be angry instead of me
my attitude being I don't care I'll do as I please
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Herpetologist meets actress (Cameron Diaz) .
If he's funny he's me.
South America or Africa (on location) .
In a diamond mind.
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In disaster and war movies
the protagonist (Queen) and her immediate circle
are protected from anonymous death. They may die
      (one by one or all at once)
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Two thoughts come to mind this morning.
The deficiencies in our systems of governance-local, global-
and the first two pages of The End of Faith
in which he mistakes acts of war for religious acts
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Two years peeing in the same spot and still no clue
about the small tree with thorns in the bole
and opposite, entire leaves. Not Gleditsia. One thorn,
not three. Could it be privet?
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Two hawks aloft
crows anxious banding together
Carol Ott comes over to my house, likes the warm
      weather, November
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The perfect year,
two equal halves.
One with leaves
one without.
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