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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Friday, February 11, 2022

The great works remain

 

February 11, 2012  (I was 67)

 

The great works remain

the makers are taken

sky word note paint stone

voice ear eye hand gone

 

That done deletes need

but may be a seed

sower left sown

creation now done

 

works must conceive one

in their own image

deduce a being

that may have made them

 

story song prayers

cathedral prayers

on canvas prayers

no petitioner

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