Theresa Haffner Poems

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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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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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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Distances.

The L.A. poetry scene is
all about distances.
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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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i.

the afternoon tv
became the very real
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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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