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, October 22, 2018

All the knowledge known and expressed


October 22, 2010  (I was 65)

All the knowledge known and expressed
cannot equal the known but unexpressed
So much written but never read
pictured or sculpted and never seen
composed arranged and unheard
fabrics woven never felt
fragrant esters inhaled but once
tastes of numbers and notions
found and forgotten a thousand times
images thought by disembodied mind
thoughts imaged by unmindful hand
Master work in the bottom drawer
of a cabinet in grandfather’s basement
If we find but one piece
we search forever for another
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