22 July 2004. A week or two ago, one of the postcards Geof Huth sends me when he's traveling had a poem on it I was particularly intrigued with. In fact, I gave him all kinds of advice about exploiting his idea. I suggested he write a poem using its one word, "presences," in some central way, then make his squares refer back to the poem. Or something like that. When I come on a poetic device I like in anyone's work (or come up with one myself--often accidentally), I tend to go haywire with ideas of what can be done with it. More often than not, they go nowhere. In this case, they led quickly to my 100% steal of Geof's idea for a poem I thought out but never made, and then--this morning--to my 70% steal, "Girl Poem," of it below, with Geof's stolen-from poem above it. "Girl Poem" is a work-in-progress; I definitely need to make the typography more crisp, but I think I may try to do something like what I advised Geof to.