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22 December 2004. I've begun messing around in Paint Shop again. The thing below is a true experiment: the result of aimless fooling around to see what might happen. I don't think much has, but I think I've discovered a minor ploy: having letters develop out of . . . the blue. And I see now that what I want to learn from this kind of thing is how to integrate letters with colored graphics in some way that makes the words they form more than titles or captions that happen to be printed on an illumage rather than under it.
My favorite kinds of words are prepositions, by the way; I particularly like using them as nouns. I don't think I've hitherto used one as a verb, though--as I do here. Fun!
Speaking of words I use, someone who didn't indicate his name e.mailed me that I had used "words" and "woods" in one of my mathemaku (the third or forth frame of my "Long Division of Poetry" sequence. He was responding to my rhyme of two days ago. In it I used that same pair together. I knew this as soon as "woods" came to mind for my poem, and thought it amusing but also perhaps of some kind of higher value that the rhyming poem would allude to the mathemaku. Nice to know, though, that anyone would remember my mathemaku upon seeing the rhyme!
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