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From a Place Lost


What I'm about to present here is not 
currently useful/ other than internally.

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07.08.06

Didn't get online today until after mid-afternoon.
Then I spent most of that time completing the list
of contents for my Rooted Sky 2006, a volume of
47 poems and 1 letter originally published in 1972
by Tom Montag's Monday Morning Press as simply
Rooted Sky.  The list is composed of hyperlinks,
but since some of the works linked to are not yet
online, their links show only as links, not as
visited links.  Going through the original book
once again has been revelatory.  I am making some
revisions, and there is one poem to which I added
slashes to indicate pauses.  I may also show that
poem as it was.  I do have a draft of it which is
quite different from what I chose to keep as a
finished poem.  I side with Paul Valéry: a poem is
never finished, it is only abandoned.  Though I
think I somewhere knew/ Yeats consistently revised
his poems, I recently learned/ he was doing so
even as he was dying.


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07.07.06

Hi, I'm Bri-, [Brian Arthur Salchert (Saul'kurt),
that is, though I am only using my middle name
in case there is another Brian Salchert online,
which is not likely, but may be one day], and my
central interests are: writing--journals, poems,
opinions mostly; 'rithmatic--elementary number
theory mostly; reading--whatever at a moment is
of interest to me, much of which I find online.
I consider myself a gregarious hermit, among other
things.  I am hidden away in UF town, though I
am from the much smaller FdL town up in Wisconsin.
I may soon have to move from where here I am, but
I have yet to figure out where I will be moving to.
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Raked up most of the remaining debris which had
been swept off the house-type roof of this mo-ho
of mine by a teenage boy the other day.  It is
9:12pm.  The clouds are still with us, but no
new rain, at least not yet.


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07.06.06

What under the sun am I doing here?
I feel queasy, as though I've/
been abducted.
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For nearly 6 years I have had my
Brian's Brain/ Logs.  Should I
discontinue them, and move in here?
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I know this "blog" thing is highly popular.
I have been to quite a few of them.
Still, I feel out of place.
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Oh fiddles, since I am in, I guess I should
describe myself, at least--you need to read
my Brian's Brain/ Logs and my Primary page.
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Here (Gainesville, FL) it is 10:45pm, and
rain has started soaking us again.  Earlier
a rain passed through--took it 1&1/2 hours.
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If this one gets much worse, I may need to
head for/ offline space.  Anyway, I am an
itsy-bitsy thinking lizard.  I am 65.  Bye.



Brian A. J. Salchert