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Third Place March 2003
Dulce Contest |
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Mike Klumpp |
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Origami |
She looked at
the folds on my palm.
She studied the lines
life
love
and madness.
She reached out and touched
the deepening lines on my brow -
she strokes a fingernail beneath the corner of my beard
along the line
from my nose to the corner of my mouth.
"You're tired", she said
and touched the quiet folds within my heart.
My eyes filled with tears.
"Origami" she said.
"You are the picture
of your life's folds,
a creation of bending
and pressing -
you are a tiny origami boat
floating on God's still pond,
and today
I am Basho!" |
| Copyright © Mike Klumpp 2003. All
rights reserved. |
Mike Klumpp's bedisde table: two clown noses, six assorted pens
and pencils, one copy of Naked Lunch, one copy of Titus Groan,
three martial arts magazines, one copy of Easy Rider, one
Bible, the Upanishads, two pictures of three children, Captain
Beefheart and Philip Glass cd's, a coaster from Bruno's Bar in New
Orleans, assorted Mardi Gras beads, and a street map of Austin,
Texas. |
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