The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I sense my essays are good, I try to resubmit to another place in pulp and several of them have been variously published in newspapers and magazines.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.