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from the sonnet one (shake s on e i)

of any beauty we want more
and think perhaps that it can last
yet as we know of days before
poets sings of our long past
so even you in gracious squint
which hints the sparkle of your eyes
your memory but tint
passing beauty as it hies
though you are lovely today
as winter til it become spring
another summer follows may
to refresh beauty in answering
a sad world to want though also then
we come alive and gone again

[written in unnamed toronto park]
Thom Olsen
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de well

the law decided of itself to rule
by happenstance or you decide
as we bring thee first to school
to anticipate is to ride
by foment or a phoney rain
time spent double quick
you could look back in vain
the good perhaps making you sick
justice coy voyager lands
the thimble of devotion spun
laughs and shakes hands
though everyone won
to lose to tip the scales
though that never fails

Thom Olsen
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from the shakespear

(toronto park) the first banding le premier bagage high park (duck ponds)


i must be candid here
to me true break of day
however far or near
spiritual or fay
is glorious
the living is great
however may clouds notorious
summon some fate
the day has been good
night agone will come again
pathways through the wood
rain now and then
and good to dream
brighter than moonbeam

Thom Olsen



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like there’s geometry in space, there’s psychology in time – marcel proust‏

the porch and the windows of the garage
the plan the man the lincoln
the watercolors en barrage
kitchen and the sink in
symmetry pour the nile
the arctic breezes chill
eternity indian file
manito fits the bill
whose love? the fox
the wolf the ant the duck
play in a box
for luck
the sun rises
as many surprises 

Thom Olsen
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Sonnet 14

did i drab declaration spew
double but single review
mark we divided over you
me i do not reminisce you
you your body you aging i love
we our canards duck guess what
fly around us hand in glove
our windows shut
you my own sun
this moon
our one
you tune
go 
hello

Thom Olsen
Well Water Collection
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Sonnet 13

i ride the bicycle i ride
to believe you your you
take me dancing to pride
along the avenue
with the world as it goes
the life we live lives
its way to dynamos
which what gives
each their way
happy even
so you mishap
even steven
nap
sure you want the breath endure
tour to retour

Thom Olsen
Well Water Collection
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did words we sake a translation from
the shakespeare

friends i crew
i came upon a park
that was all over town
it was a ton of summer
i was in love
and had recently finished proust

what i found out about bill
might paint a picture of you
could be wintertime
occasion of it predisposed
because love is in the air
i was in a park

Thom Olsen
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(toronto park unknown) (from the shakespeare)

 
some of birth some of worth proud
what they do they do
lively timely out loud
ducklings in a queue
enjoyment enjoyable perhaps
employment naps
glad at most what duckling feathers
boast of bellwethers
flying queue to vee
say goodbye to me

Thom Olsen
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esplanade (from the shakespeare)‏

the chicken the egg
then love is wide awake
a step a leg
but love does not shake
what if
there is not perfection
nor row may miff
of the heart's predilection?
if i am not for you
my heart would not know it
and when you are not in view
may happiness nonetheless show it
no poor clown
who can sometimes walk the town

Thom Olsen
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in interlude to well water (after alick nkhata)

you of whom i develop
this fondness, maggie
make me know the seeing true
giving me the signal are
maggie, beautiful maggie
you in whom endear
-
my twice said words, maggie
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Thom Olsen
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