Nathan Coppedge Poems

The only problem is, we don't know.
Everything else can be determined.
Good things in life = good god.
Bad things = bad god.
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Do not follow in the footsteps of the
master, master
His garden is no humble pasture-
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I stopped calling things eachother
long before I knew
I’d found a way between the walls
where I could always go—
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There's only a handful of forms
In the moonlight kept all in tether
The people laugh and they shake their heads
They ask me about the weather
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A song for every avenue?
A desert where the rain-cloud comes
A parched land where no needle hides
A harsh land where seeds are buried
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Under the preponderant clouds
wishing mist on the outskirts of cities
The crowd roves and raves
Speaking with the hearts of dead men
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crooked finger, stalling star
light of bottoms, branching bear
the fullest approbation of the far
where yet it hurries on the near
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Follow light, and you will be pursued by dark.

Follow dark, and you will escape the light.
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I’ve known lust since I was born
for pangs that carry on the air—
droplet notes and woman-song—
deeply sugars for the just-begun.
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