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my 2013 collection of original poems, entitled Rugs on Puddles Coats over Oceans, available at Amazon.com, has as its first poem one dedicated to charles dickens
DEDICATION
I like it when the light recedes
When day wanes
And night beckons
And habitual traffic gives way to paths less charted
I like it when the dark is near
I think my eyes are failing me
As sure as the years are hailing me
The sun is crass
And overrated
By shadows caressed
The stark evaded
I prefer the bulb
The flame
The screen, illuminated
Attendant to my hov’ring hands
In that momentary, pregnant pause
Before tomes
And poems are vented
Rendered from the gut, the endocept
Made firm to stand against
A firmament
Filled with non-readers
Non-seekers
Haters
Believers
Dogma may once have burned
To heart
To sage
To selective memory and complacence.
The victor, for worse or for the better,
Takes by force the privilege,
It is he who turns the pages;
I’ll do lyrics
And verses
And stories and studies
In prayerful, audacious literary homage
To Dickens and his purpose and his beauteous narratives
So that the chains which bind me
(And all that I will ever leave undone)
To this earth and my paltry place in time
Will not forever drag me down.
May my words,
To mine who know me yet not,
Redeem me and place me and seal me.
3-5-2012/2-2-14-2013 (dates of writes & re-writes of this poem)
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