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my father could afford to pay the fare
my father could afford to pay the farethe horizon ahead was a curtain closedbehind the curtain in the next day laywittenberg and that winter two winters beforethe carriage that brought me from summer and a place where there was nothing for me to do there wasa draft that entered those long daysin from around the… Continue reading
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paracelsus arrived
paracelsus arrivedbefore the west gatewas unlockedwhile he waitedto ask the watchmanif the pestilence had cometo wittenberg before he hadthe east gate was opened like an eyeand the morning’s early sunthat had risen from where it waitedits shining entered the town like a tide Continue reading
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paracelsus who was
paracelsus who wasphysician at basel on the day the pestilence arrivedonce said there was no cloudover the town that day no stormfrom where a first raindrop felland another then a thirdthen a quarter of a delugean evil helios climbed the sky that dayand from midday shonedown on a first in the squarethe first felt his… Continue reading
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tell mother father fed me carp
tell mother father fed me carpcarp fished out of the season of snowmeltand out of the season of high water in the elbeand the march and the april of icicle dripand the may and the june of flood werein the carp father fed me i’m sureit was before i remembered that the late winter and… Continue reading
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on the warm days of summers past
on the warm days of summers pastand on the warm days in the hope for many summers to comemy crutch is leftin my chamber and i strollalmost old to market square to buy a pound of wheatnow on this cold and winter day i agemy marrows ache and the meetings of my bones paini lean… Continue reading
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these two fingers
these two fingersi asked that you place themhere on your wrist like thisyour liver turnsyour banquet into blood i saidit ebbs upriver through your arteries to your heart i askedif you could feel it ebb from your heartupstream through your veinsyou said you couldyour heart’s in good health i saidnow you sayit’s not that heart… Continue reading
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downstream
downstreamwhere the river moveslike reptilian skin moveswhere the old man’s* python water muscles under the skin movewhere water basks on the gravel riverbed between rising away pastures that leanupslope to the hilltopswhere beyond the lick of flood feedlots squat the bladders and the bowels of a thousand notwo three ten twenty thousand morecattle are emptied… Continue reading
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5-13, 2023-Living With COPD
My medical condition is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). There is severe impairment with my breathing function. I live with a constant sense of congestion in my lungs. There are efforts to cough the phlegm up several times a day, but it seems easiest to cough it up after I go to bed. The COPD… Continue reading
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