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The Potential For Sameness

from Joy and Gravity by Jeff Fowler

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Beauty is a compromise
between what's new and what's familiar.
We owe our dearth of sight
to the modern world and history's interference.

I can't believe
that time is passing even now.
As far as I know
I'm sitting down, down, down.

We feel as points without lines,
lacking structure and support.
As if the air we breathe
just ends at our door.

But the grammar of geometry
is not an apt description
of the endless pulsing currents of our
beautiful condition.

The joys of breath
can be a heavy test
for hands that reach
and tongues that speak.

Beauty is an open eye
between the rocks and what we make them.
From the rough, hard edges
come the shapely forms and other complication.

It isn't wise
to hold your ears and feel alone
when a message in the air's
as good as seed that's been sown.

And the seasons come and go
and it's easy to assume
things'll never be the same
things'll never be the same.

But the winter and its snow
is the summer's other name,
and the trees are on the plain
with the trees still on the plain...

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from Joy and Gravity, released February 7, 2009

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