Chip Dameron is the author of eight collections of poetry, including China Sketchbook (Virtual Artists Collective, 2016). His poems, as well as his essays on contemporary writers, have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad. A two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he was a recent Fellow at the Dobie Paisano Ranch.
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The author thanks the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program for its generous support.
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► Chip's Origami microchap & selected poem(s) are available below. Download the single-page microchap by clicking the title. To read the selected poem, also click the title.
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Cover: Buddha Texas Tree by Lauri Burke
The author thanks the
Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program
for its generous support.
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Every Origami Microchap
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Grasses A litany of grasses,
a song across rocky meadows: sideoats grama plains lovegrass blue grama yellow Indiangrass silver bluestem Alamo switchgrass little bluestem Texas grama big bluestem sand dropseed King Ranch bluestem inland sea oats— forage for cattle and hungry minds. •
Chip Dameron © 2016
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Grandfather Oak I’ll bet if Buddha
had been a Texan he might have picked
this live oak, older than the Republic, have sat right under the missing limb,
others reaching out toward enlightenment. What he might have known as nirvana through chigger bite itching is a koan ripe for meditation. • Chip Dameron © 2016
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