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, August 31, 2017

Blue Moon Actuality


August 31, 2012  (I was 67)

         Blue Moon Actuality
Only once this month
overcast cloud cover
rode in on air from a colder place
permeable filter to screen the full moon
of warm tinted low frequency light
allowing only waves of quicker pulse
to stain the darkness indigo blue
I attend to the higher pitched chirps
of a cricket universe I cannot see
I hum low tones of conscious breath
and expect no revelation beyond the sound
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