Enga mellom fjella

Sijo for a Trans-addict. Dream Day. Published...

On-line counts right? "A snowman cares about our memory water"  was published at Artini.

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The Dream

For years I had picnics on this date to commemorate ML King's "I have a Dream" speech of 1963. For 15 years. So... a bit sad that I didn't plan anything this year. I know enough people here now to throw a picnic... if I plan far enough ahead. Yet another opportunity to promote unity in the community... gone...

Today, I write in my Journal, page 2,144:

I'm in Montana, a landscape that I still don't embrace. I'm listening to '70s music which takes me elsewhere. I think of you 2,000 miles away. Where is my center? And when? The present is me, here, at a wooden table at the back of The Break where Gilliam is working on computer & the baker on the other side of the windows is working on frosting. Outside it's toasty & I'm feeling "okay" --- but what this all has to do with who I was & what I did for years.... is beyond me.

Sijo for a trans-addict

Chris just laughed: give her a cigarette
         and she'll never leave.
Flo winked her reply: ply him with coffee;
         he's your best friend forever.
Give both; pray they become
         ... whichever you wish them to be.

© Kåre Enga [166.189a] 2009-08-25

Chris at Butterfly Herbs gave me a line about Flo... "Give her one cigarette and she never leaves".



Montana: 73° at 10 p.m. in Missoula.

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