The Poetry, Essays and Personal Journals of Larry L. Dill
Parallel Universes
I used to be somebody
But now I am somebody else.
Who I’ll be tomorrow
Is anybody’s guess .
--country song lyrics from the movie Crazy Heart
There are those fantasies we have about parallel universes.
Reincarnation, for example is one of them. Your spirit moves in and out of times and spaces, living in someone else’s life, and then your own and then again in someone else’s.
And when we think about the choices we have made--the roads we have taken--we are often never able to forget how different our lives might have been if we had only stayed for just a few more moments where we were. Or left a few moments earlier. And these memories…these flashes of insight…or just imagination…begin to take on a life of their own. And we are left, sometimes, wondering who exactly it is that we are.
I’ve been composing poems and personal essays and grouping all under the rubric of the New Hope Journal for 31 years now. I’m going to take a couple of months off and do some other things and return in April with some new and some old but never before published material from some of the parallel universes and lives I’ve lived in. Meanwhile, the Complete Site Index will continue to lead you through everything that has been placed here in the last 6 years.
--Larry L. Dill
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