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, March 10, 2018

Ancient history certainly began


March 10 
from this week in 2013  (I was 68)

Ancient history certainly began
twenty years before my birth
Half century before that inhabited
only by the dead buried in books
Before that only myths
who rode on beasts or borne by sail
to lands and societies unknown
And seasons were what seasons meant to be
created by the greater astronomy
We were the objects not the subject
of such incomprehensible responsibility
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