Stephen Bennett The Playjurist Poems

Out of a joy for process
and its aim
for bettering,
there naturally shows up
...

If you could make
say
an ocean,
you would. Wouldn't you
...

The beautiful sounds
we make
to speak each name, for this
or that thing in
...

Moses said 'light' showed up
on day one,
but
the sun did not
...

You only have something after somebody else
gets it,
unless in the memory of the things you have had
a now new idea bears resemblance
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You who I speak of, who I could
be speaking of, or about, or to...
are there any real people
or anyone from
...

You're finally ready to speak,
but the one doing
all the talking is me,
but I've gotten myself lost,
...

By the time all of this has been written to the end,
and subsequently read by you or your friend
the writer maybe will have alluded to
a broad and many membered field of made up
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In the massing of motion,
exhaled essences of river swollen push
pushing the too-muchness of the much off
to the furthest down bottom that swells
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A meaning for life first wonders itself
in the mind of the child who asks
'what can I be when I'm grown up? '
and follows after the ghost
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