InMyJournal

A wonderful poem by William Stafford (1914-1993) was featured on the 17 Jan 2005 Writer's Almanac http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/. It's titled "What's in My Journal" (from his 1980 Passwords) and begins:

   Odd things, like a button drawer. Mean
   Things, fishhooks, barbs in your hand.
   But marbles too. A genius for being agreeable.
   Junkyard crucifixes, voluptuous
   discards. Space for knickknacks, and for
   Alaska. Evidence to hang me, or to beatify.
   Clues that lead nowhere, ...

... a good description of this ^zhurnal!

(see http://www.williamstafford.org/ ; see also ZhurnalThree (4 Apr 2002), TreasureKnowledge (26 Oct 2002), ...)

TopicPoetry - TopicJournalizing - TopicZhurnal - Datetag20050129

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