Saturday, March 06, 2004

Crushed

Crushed
Breached
Bent
Rent

Your car
Smell of fluids
Spilt, spent

Cold breath
Hung in the air
As I searched
Belongings
From your last day

Force evident
Frozen chaos
Wet blood
Shard of tooth
Broken glasses
Where they flew
A watch
Where it landed

Gather the remains
Remnants
Quickly, furtively
Escape knowledge,
Awareness
Stink of fuel, coolant,
Death


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edited January 21, 2016
Crushed – v2
posted March 6, 2004
written 1/9/04 – 14:35-14:40
Crushed
– about cleaning out my father’s car the day after his fatal accident. The weather was very cold and the passenger door was where the gearshift would be. The license plate of the car that ran into his was there too. The glasses he wore were in the right rearmost spot and his watch was in the left rearmost part of the car. The driver seat was broken backward from the force of the accident and his blood was on the backseat where he landed.

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edited January 11, 2016
Black Ice – v4
(editing version 3)
edited September 1, 2012
Black Ice – v3
Edited August 31, 2012
“Black Ice – v2”
December 12, 2007
“Black Ice”
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edited December 29, 2015
Demons – v2
edited December 29, 2015
Did You Hear Her Cry – v2
edited December 29, 2015
The Crash – v2
posted February 14, 2004
(the 13th anniversary of my father’s fatal accident)
written June 18, 2001 10:54pm
The Crash
about my father's death
February 14, 1991
and my car accident
the day I applied to law school
edited December 18, 2015
The Submariner – v2
&
edited December 17, 2015
Meticulous – v2
&
edited December 18, 2015
Adam Asked – v2
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edited October 22, 2015
Did you brace for impact – v2
edicted October 22, 2015
Mile Marker 19 – v8
(editing original)
edited October 5, 2015
Like the Venus Fly Trap – v9
(editing version 5)
&
edited October 3, 2015
Why on this day – v3
(editing original)
edited October 19, 2014
Why on this day – v2
July 1, 2014
Why on this day
“My Prayers Weekend!”
“Next Day Stretch”
draft a note to God
about a day when you struggled
with a big question
for June 29, 2014
read June 30, 2014
&
edited June 27, 2014
A vivid memory – v2
June 27, 2014
A vivid memory
Matthew 28:20 (NRSV)
Romans 8:31-39
Upper Room Daily Devotional
“In Dark Times”
by Don Greeley
about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
for June 26, 2014
read June 27, 2014
Upper Room Daily Devotional
for March and April 2014
&
edited August 15, 2015
Here it comes – v3
(editing version 2)
edited January 12, 2014
Here it comes – v2
January 12, 2014
Here it comes
January 12, 2014
I am not ready
(conversation by Dean McKenney about his
bad car accident 40 years ago)
January 12, 2014
an accounting to God
January 12, 2014
Honor their walk
Romans 14:10-12
Romans 14:1-12
Romans 14
Men’s Bible Study
led by Steve Curtis
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
January 12, 2014
&
edited August 4, 2015
Like the Venus Fly Trap – v8
(editing version 5)
edited May 9, 2015
Ten Years – v2
April 23, 2004
Ten Years
see also
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edited January 11, 2014
Mile Marker 19 – v7
(editing version 6)
Edited November 9, 2013
Mile Marker 19 – v6
(editing version 3)
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edited March 21, 2015
Like the Venus Fly Trap – v7
(editing version 5)
edited December 3, 2014
Like the Venus Fly Trap – v6
(editing version 3)
Edited November 9, 2013
“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v5”
Edited October 24, 2013
“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v4”
Edited October 11, 2013
“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v3”
Edited December 26, 2012
“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v2”
December 20, 2012
“Like the Venus Fly Trap”
edited February 11, 2014
“hiding in the ice – v9”
edited January 4, 2014
“hiding in the ice – v8”
(editing version 5)
Edited September 28, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v7”
 (editing version 3)
Edited September 28, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v6”
(editing version 2)
Edited September 25, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v5”
Edited August 2, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v4”
Edited December 26, 2012
“hiding in the ice – v3”
Edited December 21, 2012
“hiding in the ice – v2”
December 21, 2012
“hiding in the ice”
Edited December 26, 2012
“Animated / Evil – v2”
December 20, 2012
“Animated / Evil”
Edited December 26, 2012
“A latent danger – v3”
December 20, 2012
“A latent danger – v2”
“A latent danger”
Edited December 26, 2012
“Smiling in the freezing – v2”
December 20, 2012
“Smiling in the freezing”
Edited December 26, 2012
“A frozen trap – v2
December 20, 2012
“A frozen trap”
Edited December 26, 2012
“was the road innocent – v2”
December 21, 2012
“was the road innocent”
Edited December 26, 2012
“Did the ice know – v2”
December 20, 2012
“Did the ice know”
series of new poems
also about my father’s death,
after reviewing poem by Jacob Montgomery,
“Icy Lanes”,
(see more of his poems at:
and exchanging emails with him about that poem
and my father’s death
2/14/1991
&
Edited August 22, 2013
“eyes not shut – v2”
August 22, 2013
“eyes not shut”
a poem in conjured after reading poem
TATTOOS AND ATTITUDE”
by Chip Bergeron
&
Edited September 20, 2012
new poem, “Did you brace for impact”
&
Edited September 20, 2012
“Mile Marker 19 – v5”
&
Edited September 12, 2012
“Mile Marker 19 – v4”
editing version 2 below
&
Edited September 12, 2012
“Mile Marker 19 – v3”
editing the original again
inspired by reading it at Poets’ Corner
monthly poetry reading,
at the Suncook Senior Center
September 10, 2012
&
edited June 6, 2012 (adding an additional last stanza)
“Mile Marker 19 – v2”
&
October 2, 2011
Did You Hear Her Cry
after rereading earlier poem,
“Mile Marker 19”
&
Edited April 23, 2013
“No Life in Your Eyes – v2”
February 11, 2011
“No Life in Your Eyes”
remembering the 20th anniversary
of my father’s death, February 14, 1991
written at the House of Purpose coffeehouse
Hillsboro, NH
February 11, 2011
&
new poem February 11, 2014
Where you are scattered
posted March 22, 2004
written 2/26/2001
Adam Asked
posted March 18, 2004
written March 6, 2001
Meticulous
posted March 17, 2004
written 3/2/2001 and 3/5/2001
The Submariner
posted February 18, 2004
edited April 25, 2015
Home Again – v2
edited April 23, 2015
Your final resting place – v2
edited April 25, 2015
Ashes – v2
March 2, 2001
“Ashes”
posted February 18, 2004
March 2, 2001
“Home Again”
&
posted March 10, 2004
written April 3, 2001 8:47am
Demons
&
posted February 8, 2004
original version written 5/20/2000
“Mile Marker 19”
posted to my blog on February 8, 2004,
as the 15th poem put on the site -
about my father’s fatal car accident
near Mile Marker 19
on the Spaulding Turnpike
Rochester, NH
February 14, 1991 at 7:02pm
Valentine’s Day


All of my poems and photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 40,760+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Braking on Green

Loudon Road,
Washington Street,
Miracle Mile.

Stop and start
Line of traffic
Frustration

Red taillights
Green street lights
Braking on green
Again


edited January 21, 2016
Braking on Green – v2

posted March 6, 2004
written January 9, 2004 14:28
Braking on Green
Loudon Road in Concord,
Washington Street in Claremont,
and Miracle Mile in Dover,
and many more

All of my poems and photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 40,750+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Friday, March 05, 2004

No Time

No Time
To think, to plan, to dream, to be ready
Reading slower as time goes on
Words blur in my cube, my mind
Does that sentence make any sense?
It didn’t the last 4 times
Why me? What penance must I pay
I actually did this to myself – what was I thinking?

Where is the logic to this holding?
Give me Scalia – a turn of phrase -
Minnick v. Mississippi – what a dissent
Prophylactic layer on prophylactic layer,
Towers and turrets on the Miranda castle.
Or parsed/pitchy jibe to wake me from the drudgery
When minority views are claimed as generally understood rule of law that…
The opaque words I’m trying to learn – gray on gray

Caffeine – a Moxie, if you please –
O great vending machine
Warm my lips and quiet my chill
As the night grows
Highlighter, fly to the key phrase –
Not cover the page

Wince in looking back
At my notes –
What was in my mind then?
Am I dyslexic? A-D-D? –
Clarity eludes me
Cryptic scratchings of reading at midnight
Don’t call on me!! – no clue what the rule
The worth of the case
The weight of authority – narrow to the case at hand – or Brown v. Board of Education (I & II)
Progeny too,
Or unpublished opinion?

No time
Class in minutes
Bag on shoulder
Time for coffee – black - again
Unprepared –
Wing it!


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edited January 21, 2016
No Time – v2
posted March 5, 2004
written 1st draft 11/7/02 9:14am
edits 11/8/02 16:47
edits 11/11/02 18:10
No Time
about last semester of law school
&
January 14, 2015
no time - 2
Worship Theme: New Year
Ecclesiastes 3:1-12 NIV
Revelation 21:1-6 NIV
Epiphany of the Lord Sunday
sermon “A Year in Review
by Pastor Ruth Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
“God’s Whisper” blog
Prayer of Thanksgiving
we thank you Lord – v7
by Raymond A. Foss
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Epiphany of the Lord Sunday
December 28, 2014
&
edited January 20, 2016
Holding onto my Dicta – v2
posted February 26, 2004
November 11, 2002 8:35pm
Holding onto my Dicta
&
edited January 20, 2016
Actors – v2
posted February 28, 2004
written 9/18/01 23:00 to 23:15
Actors
&
edited January 20, 2016
Kontraxtz – v2
posted February 29, 2004
written September 22, 2001 19:18 to 19:40
Kontraxtz
&
edited January 20, 2016
Into the Stream of Commerce – v2
posted March 3, 2004
written 11/14/2002 8:35am
Into the Stream of Commerce
&
edited January 14, 2016
My Memo 1 Sucks – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-memo-1-sucks-v2.html
posted February 27, 2004
written 9/18/01 23:25 to 23:40
My Memo 1 Sucks
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/my-memo-1-sucks.html
(About the first memo in Legal Skills, 1st semester of law school)
&
edited January 13, 2016
Hands Raised – v4
(editing version 3 and original)
edited October 3, 2015
Hands Raised – v3
(editing version 2)
edited June 25, 2014
Hands Raised – v2
posted March 1, 2004
written September 3, 200118:45
Hands Raised
first week at Franklin Pierce Law Center,
now UNH School of Law
&
edited January 8, 2016
Swimming in Molasses – v2
posted February 25, 2004
written September 10, 2001 19:13
Swimming in Molasses
(Thinking about the readings for the Contracts class
of 9/10/01 and the discussions in Torts
last week on wooden use of aged precedents)
&
edited January 8, 2016
Yellow Bands – v2
posted February 26, 2004
written October 20, 2001 22:47
(about highlighting text for class discussions)
&
edited January 8, 2016
Law School – v2
posted February 23, 2004
written 9/3/01 19:25
Law School
edited January 8, 2016
&
Done – v2
posted February 23, 2004
January 28, 2004 22:43.
Written on completion of the Education Law Institute paper,
after 2 extensions. Forty-six pages, 12,000 words, and 335 footnotes.
Done
&
edited January 7, 2016
Citations – v2
posted February 16, 2004
written 9/3/01 18:15
Citations
about first few weeks of Law School
Legal Writing class
&
edited December 31, 2015
Building Blocks – v2
posted February 16, 2004
written 9/3/01 12:30
Building Blocks
&
edited December 30, 2015
First Day – 1L – v2
posted February 16, 2004
8/22/01 22:50
First Day – 1L


All of my poems and photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 40,760+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

A Quote

A quote, a quote
My brief for a quote
Oh were it not so
That I perchance could find
The case on point, the nugget,
The precise notion
To set my pen to write
Cast care to the winds
And blend a rule
See an argument
Master a rhyme
Meter and verse
Within the rubric
In my mind…



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edited April 14, 2015
A Quote – v3
edited April 5, 2014
A Quote – v2
posted March 5, 2004
A Quote
written 2/16/02 19:57



All of my poems and photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 40,750+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Thursday, March 04, 2004

Crucifix

Paper wasp
Collected
Mounted
Perched on a pin
Against old barn board

Through the thorax
Metal spear
Poised as in flight
Hovering over the wood
Never landing

Captured
Preserved
Dust covered
Dry
Brittle



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edited January 21, 2016
Crucifix – v2

posted March 4, 2004

written January 9, 200414:30

Crucifix

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/crucifix.html

thought of simultaneously with Braking on Green

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/braking-on-green.html

and Crushed

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/crushed.html

while driving on Route 393 last evening, while listening to NHPR Front Porch with interview - Poems from a Hardscrabble Life

John Walters, 2004-01-08
Award-winning poet Wesley McNair was born in Newport, New Hampshire and lived most of his life in the Granite State. His latest collection, Fire, was the co-winner of the Jane Kenyon Award for Oustanding Book of Poetry. Many of the poems were inspired by his hardscrabble youth in New Hampshire.



All of my poems and photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 40,760+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Day Moon

Over the tree line
Under the blue
Powerless ghost
Servant of day

A leaf pressed under waxed paper
Muted and flat
Hung on the sky
Waiting for night


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edited January 21, 2016
Day Moon – v3
(editing original)
edited March 12, 2014
Day Moon – v2
posted March 4, 2004
written September 6, 2003 7:52pm
Day Moon


All of my poems and photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 40,750+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Into the Stream of Commerce

Edit done (well, time ran out)
Paper stamped and in
Now the wait
To validate or critique
The thread, the rule of law
Woven with my words
Cites and paraphrase
Block quotes and synthesis
Background and projection
Of precedent and rule
Chapter and verse


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edited January 20, 2016
Holding onto my Dicta – v2
posted February 26, 2004
November 11, 2002 8:35pm
Holding onto my Dicta
&
edited January 20, 2016
Actors – v2
posted February 28, 2004
written 9/18/01 23:00 to 23:15
Actors
&
edited January 20, 2016
Kontraxtz – v2
posted February 29, 2004
written September 22, 2001 19:18 to 19:40
Kontraxtz
&
edited January 20, 2016
Into the Stream of Commerce – v2
posted March 3, 2004
written 11/14/2002 8:35am
Into the Stream of Commerce
&
edited January 14, 2016
My Memo 1 Sucks – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-memo-1-sucks-v2.html
posted February 27, 2004
written 9/18/01 23:25 to 23:40
My Memo 1 Sucks
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/my-memo-1-sucks.html
(About the first memo in Legal Skills, 1st semester of law school)
&
edited January 13, 2016
Hands Raised – v4
(editing version 3 and original)
edited October 3, 2015
Hands Raised – v3
(editing version 2)
edited June 25, 2014
Hands Raised – v2
posted March 1, 2004
written September 3, 200118:45
Hands Raised
first week at Franklin Pierce Law Center,
now UNH School of Law
&
edited January 8, 2016
Swimming in Molasses – v2
posted February 25, 2004
written September 10, 2001 19:13
Swimming in Molasses
(Thinking about the readings for the Contracts class
of 9/10/01 and the discussions in Torts
last week on wooden use of aged precedents)
&
edited January 8, 2016
Yellow Bands – v2
posted February 26, 2004
written October 20, 2001 22:47
(about highlighting text for class discussions)
&
edited January 8, 2016
Law School – v2
posted February 23, 2004
written 9/3/01 19:25
Law School
edited January 8, 2016
&
Done – v2
posted February 23, 2004
January 28, 2004 22:43.
Written on completion of the Education Law Institute paper,
after 2 extensions. Forty-six pages, 12,000 words, and 335 footnotes.
Done
&
edited January 7, 2016
Citations – v2
posted February 16, 2004
written 9/3/01 18:15
Citations
about first few weeks of Law School
Legal Writing class
&
edited December 31, 2015
Building Blocks – v2
posted February 16, 2004
written 9/3/01 12:30
Building Blocks
&
edited December 30, 2015
First Day – 1L – v2
posted February 16, 2004
8/22/01 22:50
First Day – 1L


All of my poems and photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 40,750+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.