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, June 24, 2022

Listen to the emanations

 

June 24, 2011 (I was 66)

 

Listen to the emanations from your empty shell

to the howling of those airless winds

There are voices that call only when you listen

Listen with the window open to the songs

of birds that may not be in the trees

though their songs have been for centuries

On your rock sit and listen to the streams

streaming over rocks then they flow

flow wider sound deeper and the light

plays through wet surfaces to shadow

invisibilities across the river stones

The invisibilities dance to music only you can hear

emanating from your empty shell

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