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Matt Daly
Matt Daly's poetry has been published in various journals, including Split Rock Review, High Desert Journal, and Pilgrimage. He is a resident faculty member of the Jackson Hole Writers Conference, and received a Neltje Blanchan Award for writing inspired by the natural world from the Wyoming Arts Council. Matt regularly collaborates with poets and other artists. He had two exhibitions of collaborative visual and poetic work in 2017.After Tony Writes to Me About Dogen
Reading about enlightenment, I am grateful I ate
granola with almonds, walnuts, cranberries and milk
rather than plain oatmeal, which takes several
lifetimes to cook in the pot I like to scrub until it shines
like a new one. I cannot focus on anything important,
like the fundamental nature of existence or
whether the corn gluten I put on my front yard
will speed the dandelions into their next incarnation,
ideally somewhere far from my window, when my
animal stomach growls at me for giving it such
a meager offering from such a bright, little bowl.
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