Morgan Michaels Poems

Obsession is just
Delusion that Reason's
unable to dispel;
perfectly acceptible-
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Told we are right
we are highly inclined to believe it;
told another is wrong
we are equally so-inclined:
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Easy delusion?
tough reality?
Wondering what to do
Always choose the latter
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You too, rich enabler, have slid into the gray of memory
with no captions and no forwarding address
convincing us that most lives lived before the fall of such
are mere decorations of themselves and therefore waste;
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Insincere, they said,
Your heart forever vanishing, going out of sight
returning each night to its violable branch,
in its enchanted wood. Like a firefly it beckons. Ha!
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God, you shall find, if nothing else, has a sense of humor
hard to explain. Like when a bird is not a bird
but a messenger, bringing in its wake
news of the day; or when a Perseus,
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Up slides the blind and out of remotest heaven
from a perlmutter sky
falls the pure, the Brownian, upward drifting snow
casually but surely, in high-blown whorls;
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