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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Sunday, March 12, 2017

Merced River Underlook #1


from this week in March, 2009  (I was 64)

         Merced River Underlook #1
From ripples eddies and surface whirlpools
from flotsam and water bugs
projected shadows play over river bottom rocks
in such a way as to reveal movement patterns
not visible watching their objective correlatives
Their swell and floe individual yet repetitive
teach the physics of an unformulated text
blurring distinction between mass and motion
Beyond the now recordable observation
the phenomenon reminds us
to seek for new ways to look

*also March 20, 2014
…my interpretation of an expression heard by daughter Lauren:

“Yosemite is a thin locale”
-a place where the veil is sheer
between the perception
and the actuality
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