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  • Encounter with Frogs

    Encounter with Frogs What is an impression worth? A frog.  And a jar of ruddy leeches. When I say “frog,” I think “Frogs. Frogs are good to think.” The matter of frog experience first floats Then sinks mostly unknowable, spuriously Into the spawning pond of memory. It’s a rich seminal soup, full of eyes, Magnified,…

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    A Dimmer View, or, the sudden consideration of time Cataracts lead to a dimmer view of things, but not wholly, as I believe we are heading toward oblivion. Not just losing the center, mind you, and not merely a case of falcon not hearing the falconer. Just as we, Nietzsche in particular, booted God from…

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