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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Saturday, November 11, 2017

Certain


from this week in November, 2012  (I was 68)

Certain
things offer points of common perception
bits of acknowledged existence
place holders in reality, retainers
of a consciousness otherwise lost in time,
triggers that bring a target to view
focused in the crosshairs of a shot
fired long ago across a neurological galaxy
A true talisman is created of its own accord
but in our presence, a dormant awareness,
a patient familiarity awaits revelation
A found talisman from another era
of obvious import in design and heavy
with foreign significance,
is a substance emanating potential

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