Snake\u2019s Karma<\/p>\n
Why this be as it is he wonders.
\nQuestions boundin round inside
\nHis tube like echos in a sewer pipe.<\/p>\n
Why not some better endin
\nFor everything\u2014why we got to bring
\nDown the whirlwind on ourselves,
\nPast and present rubbed together
\nTil the future\u2019s set on fire?<\/p>\n
Why can\u2019t we do this simple
\nThing\u2014love one another, love the land
\nIncludin the land of one another
\nAnd the planet where it happens?<\/p>\n
What keeps us from gettin it right
\nAnd makin peace with death so as
\nWe don\u2019t fear it so much we be invitin
\nIt prematurely into our hearts.<\/p>\n
Snake thinkin about this but all the time
\nHe\u2019s salivatin bout the good taste
\nOf a bone still got some of the critter on it.<\/p>\n
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“Snake’s Karma” is reprinted from Snake,<\/em> Red Hen Press, 2012.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n J. Gary Lemons<\/a> writes, \u201cThere is tradition but there is also freedom from tradition. \u00a0Meaning really there is just freedom. \u00a0To look–to see the invisible lines between things, to color the world with thought and paint its huge relevant inexpressible ironies with the tiny brush of personal devotion. \u00a0The choice is the gift. \u00a0The rest is practice.<\/p>\n I want to be at that place where individual memory and collective memory intersect. Like a scientist picking the fragments of mesons and quarks left after a high speed particle collision, \u00a0I want to rake through the details of bones, of threads and odd symbols and mirrors every human being leaves in the safety net below them. \u00a0I want to draw attention to, perhaps even comfort, the trembling pieces as they begin to fade.\u201d<\/p>\n His poetry collections include Fresh Horses (Van West & Co., 2001)<\/a>, Bristol Bay: And Other Poems (Red Hen, 2009)<\/a>,\u00a0and Snake (Red Hen, 2012).<\/a>\u00a0He lives in Port Townsend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Snake\u2019s Karma Why this be as it is he wonders. Questions boundin round inside His tube like echos in a sewer pipe. Why not some better endin For everything\u2014why we got to bring Down the whirlwind on ourselves, Past and … Continue reading