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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Sunday, August 29, 2021

Blue Moon Presentiment

 

August 29, 2012  (I was 67)

 

         Blue Moon Presentiment

The month stretches long enough

and the moon speeds fast enough

to reflect its full face twice

and to illuminate an unscheduled wisdom

It’s the kind of game we attach to anomalies

in hope they will portend a significance

we can divine and identify

with an authority greater than our own

I’m pagan enough to tend to ritual

shamanistic enough to count the nights

til under its light I will rattle awareness and look

in successive moments of quiet respiration

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