Theresa Haffner

At first love makes you blind,
But in the end it teaches you to see.
What is the meaning of love?
It will not be what you expected.
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Devil may care
What seals my fate.
What others would share
The Devil may take.
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we came home on the dark side of town

we came home to a deserted rubble of half forgotten memories, children’s toys, fenced yards grown heavy with weeds, and a cold wind blowing
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Allen Ginsberg called me long distance from New York..

It woke me from a sound sleep. Groggily I put
the receiver to my ear.
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Oneness.

I know there is a oneness
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Distances.

The L.A. poetry scene is
all about distances.
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In the garden,
I saw you.
You were more beautiful by far.
And I walked with you
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In your eyes
you are yet
forgetful of
your true estate.
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on our way to the city
we encountered the remains of other travelers
whose journeys once traversed our same terrain
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Unto all things give the opposite.
Unto joy give sorrow. To happiness give regret.
Unto laughter give tears. In time of mourning,
rejoice.
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Have you ever gone out hunting for mushrooms?
Or been on a mushroom hunt
when you were only a child
perhaps with your grandmother or grandfather
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The first time the world was destroyed was by water.

The second time was by fire.
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Out of the Darkness-Light!
The forms emerge and move.
The play of light and shadow
brings motion.
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Book One

These are the words received in a dream
which I wrote in a book when I
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We are all children
Lost on horizons
That compass our dreams
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i.

the afternoon tv
became the very real
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i.

the will to survive
is
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POEM WITH STRING

and so i said take this program of
artificial intelligence insurgency
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(STARDATE 45122.3. The sensors aboard the Starship Enterprise have detected a subspace anomaly. The nature of the anomaly is as yet unknown, but Commander Data has reported a slight drain on the warp core generator. Captain Jean Luc Picard has alerted the senior crew members to keep him informed of any changes and meanwhile continue on course to the colony on Aldebaran III)


“It must mean we’re really getting old when the only thing we talk about is television, ” I say to Bobby. He sits across from me, the flickering colors from the TV screen playing across his face, the dim light illuminating the room like a lunar landscape.
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I woke in the morning to the raucous “caw-cawing” of a crow.

He was perched on the electric wires above my sidewalk bed, swaying back and forth in the breeze to keep his balance as he cried.
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