Daniel Moran
Webster, New Hampshire, United States

I love the world. When it does not encroach. When people do not knock at my door. I want to know what is happening. Out there between commercials. I want to worship. But I find nothing sacred. So I am contented with bottomless thinking. About the blossom of daylight, And the complexion of the darkness. I roll it around, forcing it into the deep corners of my skull.

Here and there, I feel inspired to sing, and then I retreat again to silence. Come find me. But don’t stay long. There are things I need to get back to not doing. There are passages and the past to contemplate. Dedicating myself to those places where I can feel free, To be lost, chanting at the stillness.

 

 

 

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DANIEL THOMAS MORAN, born in New York City in 1957, is the author of ten collections of poetry. His eleventh collection, “In the Kingdom of Autumn”, will be published by Salmon Poetry in Ireland in 2019. In 2005, he was appointed Poet Laureate by The Legislature of Suffolk County, New York. His collected papers are being archived by The Department of Special Collections at Stony Brook University. He is a retired Clinical Assistant Professor at Boston University’s School of Dental Medicine, where he delivered the Commencement Address in 2011. He is Arts Editor for The Humanist magazine in Washington, DC. He and his wife Karen live in Webster, New Hampshire.

 

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