The Beast

I've been seeing this beast around town the past few days. And yesterday I found it parked out in front of our house! (When I took the photo of the skull, I was close enough to see people sleeping inside.)

Spiritual Cadillacs Of The Morning

This morning I stopped by Dey House to make some copies before class. I looked down & found a bouquet in the trashcan. Afterward, I showed my class a documentary and journaled on the back row.

During office hours, I introduced one of my students (a talented young writer) to Jim McPherson, who sat and talked generously with us for about twenty minutes. The talented young writer's world was visibly rocked by the experience. I felt something I rarely feel: Sincere hope for the future. When Jim left, the young writer said, "He's like - like an oracle!"

"Yeah, man" I said, "He is."

Another Tuesday Morning

It's Tuesday morning. Time to go teach. Outside, the trash collectors are emptying the cans that line our street.

Regional Thoughts

"Racism is a worldwide problem and it's been since the beginning of recorded history… and it ain't just white and black… But thanks to George Wallace, it's always a little more convenient to play it with a Southern accent."

- Drive By Truckers (from "The Three Great Alabama Icons")

Alone Is Light

"When the sun, after hovering majestically on the horizon, sinks and suddenly disappears from sight, we understand that between this star and us exists a mode of communication that, without our having to touch it, brings us a presence of mind. This mode of communication, which exercises itself over incommensurable distances and is transmitted via the eyes - this, and this alone, is light."

- Jacques Roubaud (from Exchanges On Light)

BOX PIECE

BOX PIECE

Buy many dream boxes.
Ask your wife to select one.
Dream together.

1964 spring

- Yoko Ono (from Grapefruit)

Pigeon Palimpsest