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, June 30, 2022

Where are the stories of animals

 

June 30, 2011 (I was 66)

 

Where are the stories of animals

struck by lightning?

Bolts down the throats of giraffes

flattened elephants 

Sparks arcing between the poles of elk antlers

Dogs peeing on split trees

Animals electrically altered

to become more or less of what

they originally were

I hear of people getting hit

all the time

Any who survive are life-shaken

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