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Barbara Green That was fun, Stan, thanks! Leslie Morris, there's a section on the revival of Stoicism at the beginning.
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Stan Burfield How is it that I always seem to come on here just when you do, Barbara Green? Telepathy?
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Barbara Green Stan Burfield It's that panpsychism thing.
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Stan Burfield I've got an easier answer to swallow: it's just another weird thing in a very long line of weird things.
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Stan Burfield I'm just now working on that poem you dug out of that prose I put on here a few days ago. It's coming. So far I've reworked the first half. Tentatively. The second half is pretty much the same yet.
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Stan Burfield
Standing Still
"We halted and so knew that the quiet night was full of sounds..."
- T. E. Lawrence, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
The best part of walking
is standing still,
but not to stare at,
to grab, paint, snap
the voluminous universe
into pointillism
or to jot a note, perhaps,
on the crest-fallen "lopsided pose"
and the whoit whoit whoit
of cardinalis cardinalis
that is "given within sight of mate",
but instead to leave the world of movement-through
and enter the other.
In these moments
I do not watch the leaves in passing;
I live with them.
Beside me,
a tree shades a bush
as it has since the swelling spring
when its leaves enlarged,
and now they wobble in the slight breeze
that flows between them,
across which a spider is slowly
picking its deliberate way
above the grasses
and low herbs.
I move
and it is only a painting on a gallery wall.
I stop:
we are all here.
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