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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Monday, June 4, 2018

The entirety considered


June 4, 2012  (I was 67)

The entirety considered
quickly escapes thought
as a visual landscape diminishes
beyond the vanishing point
and the impossible immensity,
the dark spaces between
universal vibrations called things,
engulfs the minute ripple of miniscule perception.
Nauseating realization reduces all beyond reduction,
line to word to syllable to chemistry of inspiration.
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