Inconceivable

   It’s very simple dialectics. One through nine,
   no maybes, no supposes, no fractions.
   Dialectic logic is there’s only love and hate,
   you either love somebody or you hate them.
         ~The Photojournalist, Apocalypse Now!

I think he was thinking of dichotomous
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The Dingy Song

or, Meet Me in St. Diego

Ding ding ding rang the dinghy
Well, not really the dinghy
But the bell on the dinghy
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Fall and Winter

The carcass of a doe
has lain for weeks
in a graveled ditch
on Twin Lakes road.

The lower half is gone
but the upper torso
rears back its head
in rigored anguish.

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This Story Might Be True

an Israeli and
a Palestinian
walk into a bar

together

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You Be the Judge

September. Court is in session again,
a darkness on the edge of our town.
Winthrop’s vultures have returned
to their perches in the forked snag.

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A Brief History

On a hillside above Twin Lakes Road
a hand-painted sign beside a rugged cross
reads, “In loving memory of Josh and Rachel—
you will be in our hearts always.”

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Whitehall, Montana

Population: Obstinate

In the family of gateway towns
north of Yellowstone National Park
Whitehall rightly self-identifies
as the neglected youngest brother.

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I Know There Is a Purpose

The bearded seal suns on a floe
while a polar bear stalks it nearby
Biologists say it can smell its prey
up to twenty miles distant

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Vocabracadabra

“The female
      is like
            a deformity
                  of the male.” ~Aristotle

What sleight of manguage
did not morph cow to fe-bull,
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contraDiction

choosing
allofthewords

is
not
poesy

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