I don’t write in a journal everyday, but I have accumulated many entries over the past 50+ years beginning in 1966. Some items evolved into longer works. Among the leftovers little pieces survived. I thought a collection of these with a piece culled from the same date in a past year would make an interesting yearbook. The consistencies and inconsistencies of mind, skipping back and forth across time, provide varied perspectives. It is difficult to remember the context of the past we’ve lived; we also make suppositions about times that predate ourselves.

The few alterations from original drafts were to improve clarity. The worst of my work is not included. There remains enough mediocrity and immaturity to make me feel humble and you feel smart. There are also moments of accidental insight and incidental humor.

Author Stephen Crane referred to his little pieces as pills…apparently they were small and somewhat hard to swallow, but good for you.


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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Where are the stories of animals


June 30, 2011 (I was 66)

Where are the stories of animals
struck by lightning?
Bolts down the throats of giraffes
flattened elephants 
Sparks arcing between the poles of elk antlers
Dogs peeing on split trees
Animals electrically altered
to become more or less of what
they originally were
I hear of people getting hit
all the time
Any who survive are life-shaken
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