RIGHT NOW SOMEWHERE ON THE GLOBE<\/p>\n
The poetry marathon is cutting across a different segment of the stratum of the world<\/p>\n
But the same segment of the journey we are on together.<\/p>\n
Someone is in a household that is waking up,<\/p>\n
Someone is in a household that is going to sleep.<\/p>\n
Someone looks out their window at the bright sunlight and thinks about the pumping of their heart.<\/p>\n
Someone looks out their window and sees the dark, and takes their metropolol to control the pumping of their heart.<\/p>\n
One person sees a meadow and recognizes it as Yosemite.<\/p>\n
Another wonders why there is a boardwalk in the wildnerness.<\/p>\n
People see glassy buildings that look like home,<\/p>\n
Others see an alien structure found only in the fabled big cities.<\/p>\n
One person writes their first poem at 6AM, after a sleepless night worrying they will miss the alarm.<\/p>\n
At the same moment another person is checking the clock after a comfortable dinner at home.<\/p>\n
One person strolls in and out of their familiar writing spot,<\/p>\n
Another is hunched at the kitchen table.<\/p>\n
At the same moment one person is writing while rush hour traffic pelts by,<\/p>\n
Another is hearing the crickets.<\/p>\n
Another hears a distant siren in the quiet of the night.<\/p>\n
One person is writing on the Sabbath,<\/p>\n
Another will finish just in timey r church.<\/p>\n
Sleepy and wakeful,<\/p>\n
Isolated and distracted.<\/p>\n
Quietly centered and<\/p>\n
Raging with a personal drama,<\/p>\n
We are all at the same moment,<\/p>\n
finger to the keys,<\/p>\n
In the same moment, the same rhythm, the same phase,<\/p>\n
of the marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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