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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Monday, May 2, 2022

Blue sky and distinct shade made it clear

 

From this week in May, 2017 (I was 72)

 

Blue sky and distinct shade made it clear

the expected shadow monkeys did appear

How small they are this time of year

 

Look for their postures and poses

stretching between adjacent branches

They are given away by their motions

 

How amused we are to be so clever

recognizing their actions in silhouette

a stretch for fruit a scratch between limbs

 

seated for meditation

inquisitive head turns tail

from which to dangle and bounce

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