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, October 25, 2018

There are times the microcosm gets kicked in


from this week in October, 2006  (I was 61)

There are times the microcosm gets kicked in
and all is awash in blood light
Anxious dread that it’s too late
to correct a mistake of exposed weakness
Futility looms in the rapid patchwork attempt
to construct a temporary defense
that may not work at all
but may make time to think of something better
Then the persistent fury abates
as if the resolve of the invading force weakens
The dams hold with seams leaking
and we take our breaths in relative calm
to consider major repair to our small craft
knowing it will never be enough for all that’s out there


HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT? 
johnkallio.com Go to AUDIO page,
Listen to my rendition of
Aquainted With The Night  by Robert Frost 

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