<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Round View<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Images from a poem float up to the top of my mind<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">shimmer just below the surface<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">and circulate back around<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">eddying me with the temptation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">of recognition<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">I want to attach words to the nameless<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">to pin the wings of my dream down to<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">the sterile certainty of our technical salvation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">so I can share these discoveries<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">with those who are always asleep<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">but may still notice the glimmer of a shiny thing<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">In this New Age of extremes <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">the wreckage of the long range forecast<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">lays crumbled <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">just before the next exit ramp<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">by the side of the road to nowhere<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">The weather is playing <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">four season monty <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">and we select the wrong season <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">again and again and again<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">as we plant our seeds without praying<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">“Where are your chants?”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">the Raven yodels on the wing<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">“Even dung beetle prays as he rolls the shitball.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">We have forgotten<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">We have exchanged the sacred <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">for the calculable<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">We have disdained the awe and magic<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">for the replicable scientific experiment</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Disposable context is not recyclable <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">and our perspective <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">inside the silo <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">is that everything is round<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">In this time of extremes <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">normalcy is toxic <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">and subversion <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">is just a prayer away</span></p></div><div class="">`<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- John Garn</div></div></body></html>