jkd jkd Poems

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1.
Walking With A Ghost

tracing back the steps of my youth
cycling along what was the old tram route
and now is a park
into the city I grew up in
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2.
How To Measure Time

one elliptic course of the earth around the sun
equals by convention one year - down here
another elliptic course of a different world
around its own distant sun
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3.
Spiders

I started fighting them late this year
and what with the mild winter and dry summer
they are everywhere now
the thing has gone out of hand this time
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4.
Bottom Drawer

the bottom drawer
is this where i should hide you?
deep down there
between all the empty shells
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5.
Contradictions

'one man's lust is the other's pain' -
right, and it seems
as if there was a fixed amount
of good and bad vibrations
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6.
Connected

if, in fact, you imagine a line
from the soles of your feet
down into the ground
through the earth's crust
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7.
A Shift

Imagine...
we had meant all the things we said
and all the words that were sung in our names
once I did - both -
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8.
Liberating Balance

the gravity of planets spinning
intertwined galaxies keeping their distance
myself: - firmly rooted and yet endlessly striving
expanded between the comforting earth
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9.
Meatballs

My mind works best when my hands are busy.
So I open the window to the damp rainy air
which slowly replaces the kitchen stink
the smell of sixteen-hundred frying meatballs
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10.
Aftermath

all presents exchanged
all good wishes said
all fireworks burnt down.
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