Sunday, April 25, 2004

Moleskin Fragments

Eat six metals
watch the rose window spin
like Ezekiel's wheel
Intimately folded eighth notes
across the Celtic line
Have you heard of the Moleskin ® Journal? I had not, until Real Live Preacher posted an entry about his.

Anyway, it's a charming (but, at $10 a pop, expensive) pocket-sized journal which has been used — according to the ads — by Van Gogh, Matisse, and Hemingway. One thing which makes this journal handy is its rigid "moleskin" cover, which makes it easier to write in when one doesn't have a hard surface to place the notebook on.

I bought mine yesterday, at Elsie's encouragement. Doubt I'll start writing like Real Live Preacher or Hemingway. But one guaranteed way for a writer to get over his/her block is for said writer to buy something to honor the trade. Notebook or pen, something about investing in either just about demands that something be written. I can't tell you how many partially full notebooks I have scattered about the place, but each one represents – in its way – a block and the leap over the block.

A word about the above fragments: the first "triad" came to me early Thursday morning. I had been awakened around 2:30 a.m. by 2-3 male cats seranading their intended. It took me a while to wake up enough to scatter the crew elsewhere. In the meantime, my unconscious came up with the mysterious phrase "eat six metals". May have been a curse intended for the horny felines, but I don't think so. There was something else that followed that injunction — some kind of promise, I think — but that's been lost. Anyway, after scattering the kitty chorus, I entered a semi-psychogogic state, and perceived a stained-glass rose window spinning (like Ezekiel's wheel) at the place of my third eye.

The "couplet" came as I was driving home from an "Art Therapy & Spirituality" workshop Elsie and I attended in Shawnee last night. More about that workshop later.

Now, I'm going to church with Preferring Christ in my right hand and my mole journal in my left pants pocket. Who knows what new fragments will be collected?

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