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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Friday, January 26, 2018

The most believable astronomical revelation


January 26,2008  (I was 63)

The most believable astronomical revelation
is the increasing distance between things
Every communication device we create
makes the separation more obvious
and proximity more dangerous
Truth is kept simple in idiomatic terms
There is fondness in our absent hearts
and discomfort in things too close
From afar we integrate shapes
into forms that are recognizable
while we deny adjacent congruencies
that might make us seem as one
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