Hello
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
To quote my favorite author, Ursula K. Le Guin, words are my matter. But so too is the imagination that grounds the making of words, the making that fosters imagination, and the fascination with people and things that gives impetus to it all.
Finally, having paid my professional dues, I get to pay something else—pay the universe back, if you will—and tell the stories that have percolated within for years and, in one instance, decades. No longer an anonymous byline, no longer a servant to a necessary master. Now I write for me, and I hope, for you though I do not yet know who the most of you are.
Welcome and again welcome!
Storytelling the matter
in a most literal and intimate manner,
now longhand,
now milonguero style.
I lead the gambol.
I beget the tale.
~ Excerpt from my poem, Gambol (2020)
© J.A. Jablonski 2021. All rights reserved.
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Jablonski, J.A. (2021, Nov 22). Hello. Blog post. J.A. Jablonski (website). https://jajablonski.com/2021/11/22/hello/
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Header image of night sky and pine trees. | Photo by Ryan Hutton on Unsplash. Colors modified. | Word cloud layer created via WordClouds.com.