father and mother together    
walked in abundance of memories    
when    
surprised in their frolics of spelled tenderness    
they enjoined me to take up the gauntlet    
with the friends of the Meeting.        
 
Hold that momentum    
be the wick without flinching    
for more gratitude    
in this minor life    
gingham checks    
cutting out with a chisel from the work contained.        
 
Only a free thrill    
époumone this work on oneself    
that the old form accompanies    
in the summer evening the detention    
at the subject source    
of our love contract.        
 
Don't sign out    
in the litigation of vain things    
stand in solidarity with major lives    
able to span the evolutionary fault line    
able to densify the reign of beauty    
to the semaphore of the principled wisdoms.        
 
 
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