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, November 17, 2016

Everyday that man wandered in the woods


from this week in November, 1971  (I was 27)

Everyday that man wandered in the woods
and he watched all that happened there
but especially the leaves which fell in time
and broke brown upon the ground
He did not know what to think of this
Some leaves drifted others dove
That man watched while seated on a rock
Reasons are alien to my comprehension
he said to himself as he watched the fall
And each day that man wandered from the woods
with bare limbs and leaves left still behind

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