Terrestrial Illuminations by Duane Locke

TERRESTRIAL  ILLUMINATION, PART III, NO. 11

So many,

Too many,

Want the poet

To image the lives

They believe

They are living.

Impossible.

The poet

Does live

By the same lies

As does his readers.

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TERRESTERIAL ILLUMINATON, PART III, No. 12

New University in city.

Only science and mathematics taught.

Courses will be not given the traditional names:

Physics, chemistry, mechanics, algebra, but will we be named:

Slave mentality 1,

Slave mentality 2,

Slave mentality 3,

Etc.

Author bio: 

Duane Locke lives hermetically in Tampa, Florida near anhinga, gallinules, raccoons, alligators.  Has had published 6,836 different poems, none self-published or paid to be published. This includes 32 books of poems. His latest book publication is DUANE LOCKE, THE FIRST DECADE, 1968-1978.

He is a photographer of Surphotos and Nature. He has had 417 photos published, some as book covers. A book of 40 of his surphotos has been published by BLAZE VOX, POETIC IMPRINTS:  RESPONSES TO THE ART OF DUANE LOCKE, by Connie Stadler and Felino Soriano. His paintings have been described in Gary Monroe’s EXTRAORDINARY INTERPRETITONS, published by University of Florida Press, and are in many private collections and museums. He is a student of philosophy—favorites: Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida.