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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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

It’ s nowing out

 

February 9, 2017  (I was 72)

 

                  It’ s nowing out

The freezing cold of night continues into day

wind spreads icy pellets across the ground

then the calm drift of downy flakes

as you’ve read of before but truer now

larger more dense and substantial

in their cumulative ability to alter the environ

a comprehensive whitening of everything

re-establishing the concept of total change

but in actuality a temporary cover up

for ideas preserved beneath a blank beauty

 

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