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 17, 2017

incident at Mt. Lassen


August 17,1969  (I was 24)

incident at Mt. Lassen
granite peak
blue mountain sky
august snow
dirty even from a distance
hundred thousand green trees
like a fence behind which rises mountain
where upon some rocky cliff
trying to install a communications reflector
a ranger fell to his death
though we may have wished it
the mountain did not move
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