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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Monday, September 19, 2016

you goddamn right I’ve got questions


from this week in September, 1973  (I was 28)

you goddamn right I’ve got questions
I got a hell of a lot of questions
I collected so many
I don’t need answers any more
I just gotta learn to weave baskets
be concerned with dying cane
meshing those fibers into self-container
a gift made to be placed upon a shelf
a quiet duck upon a still pond
If he flashes white under wing
he will rise and be gone
the reeds lean together
the rhythmic quilt of intersecting ripples
reflects the image of a dissolving cloud
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