SamadhiMuse

            Flying into Canada
              over a highway going east…
            I remember another time
              on an adventure to the Okenogan
            with a blond woman
              of simple German values
            sincere and far away
              the woman
                 the miles and time.
                              gallagher
                              22 july 85
                              Vancouver landing
            – about Shirley Lamm

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

            Always the same, Vancouver:
              the long absence,
                 the memories fading….
            And then I come again
              and I am deluged
            with a thousand reasons
              why I want to live here.
            This is a city
              in which to meditate
            to let the rivers
              just run.
                              gallagher
                              24 july 85

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

                       Murray Craig
            Numbed by the force of another
              my centering nearly washed away
            by an outpouring of ideas,
              power and optimism
            from a man who is peaking
              in his business and his life.
            He knows ministers and senators,
              he’s built a dream,
            he’s bought a new house,
              and his father
                 started an airline.
            I walked away from him
              with my eyes unfocused
                into the same sunlight and faces
            I had strolled through
              with such impunity yesterday
            trying to remind myself
              that my dreams are not his.
                              gallagher
                              25 july 85
                              Vancouver

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —