Egomaniacs eagerly eating
Pillowy Parisian pastries.
© Erik Hansen 2016
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Four 10
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Four Nine
The murmur
of frog’s song
and duck’s babble
from the wet heart
of the swamp
reminds us
of the everlasting
change,
the triskele we see
in everything
If we look close enough.
© Erik Hansen 2016
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Four Ate
The dust laden wind
across the high desert
cracks lips
and exposed skin
like baked mud
around the waterholes
slowly receding
green gems
in the red dirt.
© Erik Hansen 2016
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4 Seven
Protein drink explodes
upon the sidewalk;
tragedy comes
in many guises
this Thursday morning.
© Erik Hansen 2016
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Four 5
Inuit see clearly
the aput
And the slow suffocation
accompanying it
if the wind could pierce it
you could breathe
the icy air
far away from
the bloody brush strokes
glistening upon the pack ice
left by the nattiq
dragged from their aglu
by the ever hungry
ever silent
ever searching Pihoqahiak.
© Erik Hansen 2016
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Four Four
Cold bites downupon your bare neck
Spring seems in retreat
as the winds whip snow
across the smothered
grass.
Daffodils bow their heads
waiting for the sun
to warm it all away.
© Erik Hansen 2016
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Four 3
Sudden Sunday snowfall;
slippery sidewalk surprise.
© Erik Hansen 2016
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Four Two
Rain taps out a
stuttering beat upon
the aluminum flashing
wrapped window sill.
Beads of moisture trickle
in random pattern
down the glass surface of
my office window;
the day as dark
as the mood
it ushered in.
© Erik Hansen 2016
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Four One
Once her hair hung down
her back
rich, shiny, black
Like a crows’ or Grackles’ feathers
Or piled up tight
in a bun
stuck with pins
you could barely see
Now age has cropped it
to a utilitarian length
silver white it shines
from between the flowers
she has painstakingly nurtured
in her gardens
like the full spring moon
high
in the daytime sky.
© Erik Hansen 2016
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Hunting
I have never felt so in tune with the natural world, so sure of my place and my part on our planet as when I find myself far from the road and the beaten path, hunting wild game.It is very difficult to relate this to others as the experience is profoundly personal and intrinsically spiritual.
Often I find myself able to relate to a fellow hunter and sometimes maybe, just maybe, I am able to relate the hunting experience to someone who is not.
When I find myself alone in the outdoors, at peace with myself, I see life beginning and ending and beginning again as it was always meant to be.
I see the autumn leaves blaze in the brightest sunlight and the stars of Orion’s belt poke through the blackest shroud of night.
Every sound, every smell and every sight is truly a gift.
I feel my God’s presence and love, nonjudgemental and unconditional, as it was always meant to be.
I walk into the outdoors with an overwhelming sense of gratitude each and every time and it never grows old.
My life is saved every time I enter the woods to go hunting, my soul belonging to the ritual.
As it was always meant to be.
10/9/15
Bradford, NH
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