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A Brave Unbodied SchemeHanan Kazma and I are pleased to announce A Brave Unbodied Scheme, our second book together. 27 images by Hanan and 26 poems by me, plus a poem by Hanan. At amazon in a few weeks, at lulu now, click the cover below to check it out.

The book also includes a diptych by Hanan in collaboration with `DpressedSoul, and the Herman Melville poem "Art" from which we took our title.
Our first book was Unlike Things
My warmest thanks to Hanan for inspiration, collaboration and friendship.
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No Blues Today

I'm thinking back now, baby,
back to nineteen seventy-four,
and the day that we came walking
up to that old church door.

I was young and you were younger,
both as headstrong as could be.
But we knew what we had come for -
I wanted you, you wanted me.

It was three days after Christmas,
but old Santa could not bring
any gift that made me happy
like sliding on that wedding ring.

The years since then are long, babe,
and they are wide and deep as well.
All the pleasures, all the pains,
I will not attempt to tell.

But two blessings I will mention -
two splendid sons is what I mean.
And we're glad about a grandchild
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Question and Answers"Where did the time go?" you asked me.
Oh so very many places.

Some to the vinyl of an LP record
you may never play again but would
not part with, and if you played it now,
side one then two, and let the needle run
in from the last groove of music toward the label,
to rest there as the record spun,
you would hear time tick.

Some learned to play the guitar and is in a subway
station in Boston playing and singing with an open
guitar case at its feet; most people pass by,
but some listen briefly and toss money
and a few stop to listen for a while -
it is then time plays its own songs
and you can hear time sing.

Some has neve

Rhyming againMeet me next spring in the usual place,
give me two hugs 'cause I like your embrace,
one when we meet and one when we part -
you are a friend who is dear to my heart.

No Other Nancy told Tommy the Tree,
"I'll climb for you if you climb for me."

Old man, I've known you forty years,
and you have always hawked your fears,
and they were small and cheap somehow,
although you tried to make them dear.
I never bought, I will not now.

Porcupine Patty and Sugar Bear Sid
never told anyone all that they did.

Question the changes and the leader will say,
"Play yours tomorrow, play mine today."

Ridiculous Ralph had the world on a string,
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*Markus43 May 8, 2012

hello Richard, I hope all is well

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*RichardLeach May 9, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

hey Mark, thanks. we're good here - hope all is well with you too.

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*EintoeRn Apr 8, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

never without a pen, this guy

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*RichardLeach Apr 8, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

i just feel undressed without one!

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*EintoeRn Apr 8, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

thought so

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*RichardLeach Apr 8, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

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*iram Apr 7, 2012

(big smile) hello Richard!

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*RichardLeach Apr 8, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

hi, Ilil!

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