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15 February 2005: This morning I got copies of three of the pieces in my Poemns that I'd taken out of the all but a few of the published copies of that book, then couldn't find recently when looking for them. One, "Two Children," had been intended to go into the binding, but the printers failed to make it do that, so I had withddrawn the sheet that poemn was on, which sacrificed three other poemns, including the clothesline one I post here a couple of days ago. To make sure they're someplace, I'm presenting them below:
I quite like them all, which surprises me, as I'd long thought my poemns very minor. I still think them minor, but much better than I did. I wonder if I knew I was suggesting "agreeer" in the first of them, "An Effect of Sunlight?" I wouldn't call this one a visual poem, by the way. Like many others in the collection, it's infraverbal only.
The second is visual and simple--and very minor. The last, "Dry Spot," is meaningful to me because it has to do with a forsythia bush on our property that I and my sister and some of our friends played in when I was a little boy. I re-used much of it in my little one-poem book, An April Poem. In that the dot of the i in "April" opens to let out text about the "rained around dry spot within forsythia."
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