Thursday, August 5
No. 1
You have to think you’re No. 1
to do it all, especially in the face of
the rejection. You have to shut out
such questions and be satisfied to do it.
To spring to the easel of a morning,
the writing roaring in your head.
How do you rank that? It’s there or
it isn’t. Hemingway had it, then he lost it.
George Eliot said sometimes a missed opportunity
scores a grand retrieval. Life is not the pattern of an even web.
I made cat’s cradles out of cobwebs. The Melanesian gambit.
Maybe it takes a Maori warrior to appreciate it. The guy in Utu.
Looked like Uncle Potter.
The sexual life of savages in north-western
That is, the
We have a yaupon holly in our yard. Ilex vomitoria. You can make
an ersatz coffee out of the dried leaves. Confederate soldiers
drank
Seminole warriors drank it before going into battle. Think of Osceola.
Asi Yaholo. Crier of the Black Drink. He was a war chief, not hereditary.