Compulsively Aimless

Could a public safety slogan be adopted by poets, “If you see something, say something.” NORMAL RATE OF SPEED   Out west a murmuration of black starlings flash semaphores from the setting sun while in stoic slowness bison stride across the tributaries. In the north their distant cousins the musk ox steam and scowl under frosted scruffs.  

SIX PORTRAITS OF MADNESS   Portrait 1: Outside and Inevitable   The hermit grew delusional and portentous about the outside and the inevitable with dire moods invading his home 
no more did he trust the press, phones or the outside world in general.
 During the day he activated his nocturnal headshrinker Then again he never thought he would ever be caught violating the rules of day-night psychology.
 Last words from the smashed and dying shortwave radio warned that
 many inoperable ruptures  frustrate the dreams of obstinate
 yet sentient beings.   Portrait 2: Elves Themselves More benign than translucent we prodded the tremulous elves 
into buses  and provisioned them with crudites for the expedition ahead. Up north
when evil weasels find Etruscan elves elusive they often turn to Elvis
 and thoughts of industry A rival tribe of trolls with souls
 escaped into their underground game rooms.   Portrait 3: The Surreal ...

Returning to my random lists of books on my shelf after several years. I had to pause for a while after several moves that put my library into a state of of upheaval.  After moving from out of a house with built in bookshelves, I've had to keep my books stacked and double shelved on small shelves or stuffed in liquor boxes sitting in an attic.  I've finally been able to build shelves in my current house and see my books again.  Since then, I've also inherited books from both my parents who have passed away in the last few years.  Write it Yourself - Part II One of my first lists were books about diaries and journals including one of the most famous diarist - Samuel Pepys.   Write It Yourself - Part I Diaries, journals, logs, notebooks -- may be for an audience of one to recording daily life or possibly as a record moments in history.  Diaries cover the widest spectrum of human experience -- the drama of war ( Guadalcanal Diary or the introspect...