Modes

By Reed Harp

Suitable Measures and Greater Good present some obstacles and triumphs, some encouraging accomplishments and outcomes, along with some lingering questions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Reed Harp
• Release date: May 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781886678330

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MODES

Reed Harp

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Copyright © 2012 Reed Harp

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Suitable Measures

Greater Good

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MODES

Reed Harp

Harp, Reed Delon, 1943

MODES

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Contents

Suitable Measures

I. Whence? 1

II. Beacon Hill 6

III. The South Mall 11

IV. Atóle 15

V. Edwardian Outfits 19

VI. Laguna Chapala 24

VII. Treue der Union 29

VIII. A Pawn Shop 32

IX. A Glass Bell 35

X. Revolving Doors 40

XI. An Archives Building 45

XII. About Today 50

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Suitable Measures

I.

Whence?

( . . . part of what?)

Born to Earth in one place,

reared in another, seeking yet another,

with incessant preparation, confrontation,

toward a grand return,

such nebulous nonsense

so comprised the ducking and dodging

of some reality, holding out for its own version.

A gently rolling ocean

concocted those peptides,

shoved ashore at the South of France

and on the sands of Northern Florida,

which acids combined in a DNA shuffle

at St. Louis, for the World's Fair,

thus forming a bloodline

in search of some convergence.

Beyond that turn of a century,

to the big hurricane,

during that butchery in the trenches,

a babe was born to die,

but lived, thrived, found harmony,

perfect pitch, love at first sight,

and the motherhood of us all,

from the civilized