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, May 10, 2018

Punctuphobia


May 10, 2013  (I was 68)

Punctuphobia
Fear of being punctuated,
reduced to an appositive,
a parenthetical dashed off as an afterthought,
one of a commonality indistinguishable in series,
misquoted if quoted at all,
colonized (fully or semi-)
abbreviated, listed, compounded and diminished,
bracketed and appostrocized;
taken in exclamation, held breathless
or simply ended, period.
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