Here are some poems by my brother, J. Archie Talkington:

Eye, Yi, I

Fire Fly
Sparks in my eye

Burning impression
Everything excluding

The indelible dimension

Beyond comprehension

Circular cycle
In all but the centre

Where the Most meets the Least
At the homecoming feast

Shake and shine
Quiver and whine

From the explicit divine
To the pork rind

Shallow and wide
Deep and narrow

His Eye and Hand
From the swan to the sparrow


Living?

Try not to try
Work at relaxing

Forced love
Don't fit like a glove

Like ice and water
Though the same
It don't matter

Strain to sleep
Waking dream

Life is like
A magazine............Turn the page

The Wanderer

A habit of turning aside for the moment
Loop the loop
Till there's no time for atonement

Seeing all
But only from the inside
You never stop talking
Even when silent

Give it up
To the outside of yourself

Hang the old
Above the shelf

And light you'll be
And light you've become

Touching the untouchable
Still standing on Ground

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