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Donald Hall - Kicking the Leaves - Fall poem
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Donald Hall - Kicking the Leaves
- Thread starter Jay Dougherty
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Thanks for posting this I enjoyed it.
Palline Plum
Well-Known Member
If he were still alive, I would thank him for helping me get to here:
Words
Used to feel
Like paper currency to me;
Mediums of exchange,
That felt the same in my hand
Regardless of their worth.
So I refused to use them
For anything important,
And I became a sculptor
For whom touch and movement
Was the thing.
I am still somewhat conflicted,
But now accept
That words can be objects
If I let them ;
That words also can have shape
And taste, and motion.
They can be objects
With which to build
Somewhat leaky containers
For experience.
These days,
They are what I have.
( p.s. He also liked my sculpture...)
Words
Used to feel
Like paper currency to me;
Mediums of exchange,
That felt the same in my hand
Regardless of their worth.
So I refused to use them
For anything important,
And I became a sculptor
For whom touch and movement
Was the thing.
I am still somewhat conflicted,
But now accept
That words can be objects
If I let them ;
That words also can have shape
And taste, and motion.
They can be objects
With which to build
Somewhat leaky containers
For experience.
These days,
They are what I have.
( p.s. He also liked my sculpture...)