Craft Gatherings

I stood in the market

On a Scandinavian archipelago

Wondering

If to buy a present

Was the the right thing to do

A good way to protect

And project that moment

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Sixty-Six Thousand Steps

Fade away (almost)

Immersive

In concept

Also in delivery

Persuasive

Close-up

Also far away

Declare this

In sunlight

And beneath the stars

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Shul Times

Change and education

Or education and change

Rushing headlong

Into a future

On tracks or with steps

Entirely shaped by happenstance

Fade away, almost

The words don’t settle

So easily, even

Individual letters

Are difficult

To comprehend

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Cigarette Walk

The line of trees

How might I believe

Beyond the night’s darkness

The pathway through the woods

All uphill until

The bright clearing appears

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Sociology

I do not know of Le Bon or of Hippolyte Taine before him, although I did once stay in the Place de la République

The closest that I get to mob culture is in the football crowd, where I occasionally do move from individual thought

Of course I despise those politicians, especially the conservatives, who chose to name group behaviour as mindless and without reason

Instead, even though my own experience questions it, I prefer to believe that I behave as a thoughtful individual, whether alone or gathered in a crowd

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