By Jason Ryberg
The lone Bos primigenius on the hill at night, do you suppose she ever wonders in her laconic, bovine way what the stars could possibly be? Does the Tyto alba contemplate the moon’s topography (from his hayloft perch) or what mysteries might lay on its darker side? The Nephila clavata centred in his jewelled web, does he receive strange frequencies (or just old radio transmissions) on its taut wires and filaments? What about the sleepless philosopher/ poet taking his thoughts out for a late-night walk around the neighbourhood? Does the universe leave cryptic, fortune-cookie clues and candid little Polaroids of the Bigger Picture lying around for him to find and piece together later? Or is this semi-educated fool merely adrift on a sea of his own imagining in the leaky rowboat of his skull and nothing but a kerosene lamp, a stone jug of his uncle’s corn liquor and an old typewriter on which he may compose such (otherwise) ridiculous and impertinent questions?
Jason Ryberg is the author of eighteen books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors.He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His latest collection of poems is Kicking Up the Dust, Calling Down the Lightning (Grindstone Press, 2023). He lives part-time in Kansas City, MO with a rooster named Little Red and a Billy-goat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.
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