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, February 11, 2018

The great works remain


February 11, 2012  (I was 67)

The great works remain
the makers are taken
sky word note paint stone
voice ear eye hand gone

That done deletes need
but may be a seed
sower left sown
creation now done

works must conceive one
in their own image
deduce a being
that may have made them

story song prayers
cathedral prayers
on canvas prayers
no petitioner
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