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 28, 2021

without wind its scent emanates

 

October 28, 2002  (I was 57)

 

without wind its scent emanates

unseen it enters the light

soundlessly it vibrates existence

lacking surface or texture it expands

like the taste of salt

under the tongue and into the blood

it is the minimalism that becomes one

a restrictive essence not the other

the this of a succession of nows

the definition of the word

and the consciousness of self

the fruition the expression the realization

of the so much more beyond

the doubt of insignificance

knowing both past and future are then

 

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