
A Loose Rendering: Time, Memory, and Other Considerations
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Dedication
Part One: Time & Memory
If You Knew the Yearnings of Aging Men . . . . . . . . 3
Of Time, Memory, and Other Distractions . . . . . . . . 4
A Man Takes a Walk in November Woods . . . . . . . . 6
In the Thinness of the Autumn Air . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Remembering the "Village Tavern" . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Red's Barber Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
You Were One of Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
A January Night at the Orchard View Motel . . . . . . . 16
Cafe Life with the Old Prof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
A Little Bit of Vasana* Perhaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Rereading the Dharma Bums Fifty Years Later . . . . . . 22
My Father's Memories of Black Creek Road . . . . . . . 27
Visit to My Father's Hometown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
A Night at the Theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Conception # 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Washington Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Part Two: Poets, Presidents, and Me
In the Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
The Fabulous Fifties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
The Sixties Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
California Dreaming at the End of the Sixties . . . . . . 46
Somewhere Over the Rhine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Getting Away From Olive Drab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
The Slippery Slope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Fighting Off the Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Time Out of Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Deliverance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
The In-Between Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Into the New Millennium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
And the Beat Goes On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Part Three: Other Considerations
Somewhat Observing the Perseids . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
An Instant Coffee Poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Riff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Conception #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
The Voyage of the Rational Self . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Getting by on Epigrams in
a Non-Metaphorical World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
A Postmodern Interlude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Monologue of a Man Trapped in an Old Journal . . . . 71
A Fanciful Chronicle on the Rewriting of Ancient History 74
While on the Bank of the River Styx- . . . . . . . . . . 76
The Refugee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
That's a Good Question! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
White Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Notes on a Search for Symbols and Metaphors . . . . . 84
Of Tributaries, Rivers and Seas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Thinking About God's Waiting Room While Buying an
Overpriced Latte at Starbucks . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Contemplation in an Old Graveyard . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Warning to Myself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Just Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Sights and Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
A Fortunate Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
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