What's In My Journal

[browngirl]

A poem given me by sageness. I should write about everything from the autumn sky to the election, and today I don't trust myself to do them justice. So here are a better writer's words, though I think I have different regions in mine than Alaska.



What's in My Journal
by William Stafford

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, that never connected
anyway. Deliberate obfuscation, the kind
that takes genius. Chasms in character.
Loud omissions. Mornings that yawn above
a new grave. Pages you know exist
but you can't find them. Someone's terribly
inevitable life story, maybe mine.

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a good journal, for a good person.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*smiles at you, very much*