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Nancy Peacock



DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH POETRY
MUST HUMAN-NESS BE ITS OWN REWARD?
                                                -Robert Creeley

this place is as good as any
for a body to lie down

converged
still wet
          one foot empties
nuzzling the skin
of metaphor
guarding each heart as if I might die
of his pain

if he appeared to me a fish
he would be no less wise

in age
the Poet gives up his cleverness
turns back to his everybody's child turns
back

when do you know you are more than half-way there?
when does it become a countdown?
remnants of what he has puzzled together
knows the forms can not convince time to slow
          down stop or reverse

he acknowledges his own dust
moves forward into intention and necessity
mind found shadowed
humbled
          parts dropped or missing when put
          back together for the last time when do you know
          it is the last time why does this feel
                    like the end of something

why must we tell we of this

Good-bye dear ones
Good-bye
          I am dying to find
          the truth

                                         -danika dinsmore


                        






Seattle Participants

Nancy Peacock




Almost Nine

I am almost nine.

An ordinary girl.  Nothing special
about me.
One of the youngest in my class.

But then again, I might have
magic in my hands?
                 
                        -Rosie Hower
                                age 8
DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH POETRY WEEK

in Seattle, WA.      
Monday 18 March 2002
Seattle Public Library, University Branch
hosted by
It's About Time Writers Reading Series
In conjuction with:
DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH POETRY WEEK




Unity

Without the farmer
We'd have no wheat.
Without the cowboy
We'd have no meat.

Without the builder
We'd have no house.
Without a mate
We'd have no spouse.

Without the tailor
We'd have no clothes.
Without the actor
We'd have no shows.

Without each other
We'd have no unity.
Let's work together
For a better community.
                    -Anna Helfgott (1899-1996)