A GREEN INSECT CALLED
A "WALKING STICK"

In my existentiell existence, my 
Own
    Way to be,
                      When I was cleansed
Of publicness and am very authentic,
I experienced
A preontological ontological ontic moment,
Then I was free
From the daily concerns and obligations
That makes one a slave mentality and one
Of  the living dead,
Then I was no longer possessed by the persuasions
Of the "They," their sanctioned values,
Their cherished and beloved beliefs,
The event that finally convinced me
That life is worth living
In spite of the civilization of monstrosity and lies
That human beings have worked so hard to create.

The convincing event
Was seeing

A green insect called "The Walking Stick"
On the bark of an ancient oak.


MICRATHENA SPIDERS




Behind the Cinnamon Cinema, a
Vacant lot
           With anarchic weeds and Micra-
Thena thespian spiders. 

Micathena spiders are 
                                                             SF
                                                                                       Movies.

The narratives were written by the
Shakers
             Of glasses with cognac.
But since in vacant lot there are no box
Offices, no popcorn, 
Or hallways with five doors that open to
Five different movies,

No one sees Micathena spider's SF movies.



A SORT OF BEACH ACTIVITY
WHOSE WAY OF BEING IS EXISTENCE



 What 
                     Is
Publicly called the "unknowable" 
                     Is
                        The
Only knowledge that has echoes.

                                       Launched by
Lyricism, an anchor
                                Sails or steams
Oceans
           Without the burden having a boat.

The anchor
                  In not made of iron, or shaped
Like two bent arrows on a thick shaft with a hook,

But the anchor is constituted by
                                                   Sandpipers
Leaving foot tracks
                                On the gray, wet sand
That edges the white shore sand.

Sandpiper tracks are anchors.

Duane Locke now lives in rural Lakeland by an ancient oak, an underground stream, and two ospreys. E mail: duanelocke@gmail.com.

He, when not writing poems, devotes his hours to photographing what he calls "The sacred," insects--spiders, leafhoppers, cotton strainers, dragonflies, etc, and studying postmodern philosophy, favorites Nietzsche and Heidegger.

He has at August, 2008, 5, 996 poems published in print magazines and e zines. None of the poems were self published or subsidized. 4 more and he will have 6,000 published. Forthcoming book, YANG CHU'S POEMS, has over 250 poems not yet published which will bring his total published poems to about 6,250.

He is also a photographer of art photos, intuitive expressions based on the neural-emotive experience derived from his past life that forms the present when it becomes shaped colors. Has had 319 art photos published on internet, print magazines, and used as book covers.

He is in Who's Who In America (Marquis). More information found on internet, click "Duane Locke" on "Google"

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