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[6-16-2009 Update Insert: Most of what is in this space is now moot. I found out what I was doing wrong and have reinstated Archives and Labels searches. They do work. However, in certain cases you may prefer Labels to Archives. Example: 1976 Today begins in November of 2006 and concludes in December of 2006, but there are other related posts in other months. Note: Labels only shows 20 posts at a time. There are 21 hubs, making 21 (which is for 1976 Today) an older hub.] ********************************* to my online poems and song lyrics using Archives. Use hubs for finding archival locations but do not link through them. Originally an AOL Journal, where the archive system was nothing like the system here, this blog was migrated from there to here in October of 2008. Today (Memorial/Veteran's Day, May 25, 2009) I discovered a glitch when trying to use a Blogger archive. Now, it may be template-related, but I am unable to return to S M or to the dashboard once I am in the Archives. Therefore, I've decided on this approach: a month-by-month post guide. The sw you see in the codes here stood for Salchert's Weblog when I began it in November of 2006. It later became Sprintedon Hollow. AOL provided what were called entry numbers, but they weren't consistent, and they didn't begin at the first cardinal number. That is why the numbers after "sw" came to be part of a post's code. ************** Here then is the month-by-month post guide: *2006* November: 00001 through 00046 - December: 00047 through 00056 -- *2007* January: 00057 through 00137 - February: 00138 through 00241 - March: 00242 through 00295 - April: 00296 through 00356 - May: 00357 through 00437 - June: 00438 through 00527 - July: 00528 though 00550 - August: 00551 through 00610 - September: 00611 through 00625 - October: 00626 through 00657 - November: 00658 through 00729 - December: 00730 through 00762 -- *2008* January: 00763 through 00791 - February: 00792 through 00826 - March: 00827 through 00849 - April: 00850 through 00872 - May: 00873 through 00907 - June: 00908 through 00931 - July: 00932 through 00955 - August: 00956 through 00993 - September 00994 through 01005 - October: 01006 through 01007 - November: 01008 through 01011 - December: 01012 through 01014 -- *2009* January: 01015 through 01021 - February: 01022 through 01028 - March: 01029 through 01033 - April: 01034 through 01036 - May: 01037 through 01044 - ******************************************************* 1976 Today: 2006/11 and 2006/12 -- Rooted Sky 2007: 2007/01/00063rsc -- Postures 2007: 2007/01/sw00137pc -- Sets: 2007/02/sw00215sgc -- Venturings: 2007/03/00216vc -- The Undulant Trees: 2007/03/00266utc -- This Day's Poem: 2007/03/00267tdpc -- Autobio: 2007/04/sw00316ac -- Fond du Lac: 2007/04/00339fdl -- Justan Tamarind: 2007/05/sw00366jtc -- Prayers in December: 2007/05/sw00393pindc -- June 2007: 2007/06/sw00440junec -- Seminary: 2007/07/sw00533semc -- Scatterings: 2008/08/00958sc ** Song Lyrics: 2008/02/sw00797slc ********** 2009-06-02: Have set S M to show 200 posts per page. Unfortunately, you will need to scroll to nearly the bottom of a page to get to the next older/newer page.

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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

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Venturings [ In 1975 I was working at the West Bend, Wisconsin, Holiday Inn. At that time Holiday Inns had a program called "HOLIDEX: TEST 2" which printed in upper-case only. Its existence moved me to write a long poem in upper-case, a poem I would give the same name as that program's name. Some years later it was to be the feature poem in my never-published Teasings chapbook. ] = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = HOLIDEX: TEST 2 1 THIS IS A ROPE COILED IN THE GRASS 2 THE DOG-EARED LEAVES HOUND THE WIND THE TOMCAT SKIES ARCH & SPIT MY ARTERIES WITH MY HAIR HAVE THINNED MY TOUGH DARK THOUGHTS DULLED MY WIT AT THE FLICK OF YOUR WRIST YOUR SNAKE EYES SHOW AND THE HEATED AIR SPOILS & EATS THE APPLE SNOW 3 WEST / EAST STEP OUT: THE HOUSES OF YOUR OFFICIAL THINKERS ARE STILL TOO NARROW TOO STARK SIT BY ME IN THIS WARM GRASS AND IF YOU WISH TALK WITH ME TOUCH ME KISS ME 4 NO ELEMENT KNOWS THE RAIN AS DOES THE EARTH NEITHER THE AIRS THROUGH WHICH IT PASSES NOR THE FIRES IT KILLS NOR THE WATERS WITH WHICH IT BECOMES ONE FOR THE EARTH ABSORBS & DIGESTS IT AND GIVES IT BACK IN TRICKLES OF ITSELF TO FLASH FLOODS AND FLOODS OF SOBRIETY & FLASH 5 IN THE FOG ROBIN SONGS TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF APRIL SOON MY WORDS WILL OPEN FOR YOU 6 IN THE COOL DAWN I LISTEN FOR THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS PARADE OF POWER FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLICS HYMN-FILLED CROWNING OF THEIR BLESSED VIRGIN IF MY WORDS SOON WILL OPEN FOR YOU YOUR WORDS SOON WILL OPEN FOR ME LET US WELCOME THEM 7 THE STATUES OF THE VIRGIN SHATTER HER CROWNS OF FLOWERS BURN THE ROCKETS OF POWER TUMBLE THE PROUD BULLETS MELT WE WILL SIT AND WAIT FOR THE DANDELIONS TO BLOOM AND EACH PICK A BOUQUET FOR EACH OTHER 8 WE ARE WALKING THROUGH GRASSES ABOVE OUR EYES AND SEE EDGES VARIANT GREEN & A KNIFED SKY WITH OCCASIONAL CLOUDS & HERE & THERE A BIRD & A LEAFY END OF A FAR-REACHINGTREE & THE WAYS OUR BODIES FORCE THE GRASSES ASIDE & THE GRASSES COVER OUR FEET 9  CHOOSE THE DARKEST OF SPACES AND IT IS SAILS, & WALTZES, ROSES, LIEBFRAUMILCH, & SAND. 10 WHAT I SAY HERE, WHETHER POORLY OR WELL, WHETHER WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY, IS SAID, AND CANNOT BE UNSAID. A DREAM IN SAND, A DREAM IN WOOD, A DREAM IN STEEL: AS I GIVE YOU MY WORDS, I GIVE YOU ME. 11 SMALL, RADIANT, TEEMING PLANET IN ITS WHIRLING SLIDING CARRYING ON ROUND, ROUND ITS AVERAGE STAR ASTONISHES THE UNIVERSE / MAKES THE UNIVERSE SIGH 12 MESSENGER TO MAGNATE: THOUGH ROCKS CRUSH ROCKS & FLOWERS STRANGLE FLOWERS, NEVER WILL I DO BATTLE FOR YOU AGAINST ANOTHER WORKER. 13 MAGNATE TO MESSENGER: IN POWER THERE IS DEATH. IN POWER, LIFE. THE THIRD MESSAGE YOU CARRIED THIS MORNING COULD DESTROY HALF OF THE WORLD. 14 WHY YOU-- YOU-- GOD--RUCK--I-- I--QUIT. I-- CHALLENGE YOU TO A GAME OF CHESS. I-- CHALLENGE YOU-- BY THE PEACEFUL BEINGS OF THE SEVENTH PLANET OF SIRIUS TO--MEDITATE-- TO--LET LIVE-- I--. 15 MESSENGER, THERE IS A WALL BETWEEN US I DO NOT THINK YOU CAN CLIMB OR HAMMER THE TINIEST HOLE IN. AND, MESSENGER, YOUR MESSAGE CAN NEITHER TUNNEL NOR FLY. 16 SIR--SLAVE--CONGLOMERATE, SOMEWHERE, BEYOND THIS CITY, IS A FOREST ENTERING SHINING SKIES, A PEBBLED BEACH DANCING WITH GULLS, A TRANQUIL MOMENT BRAGGING RAINBOWS--. 17 MESSENGER, IT WILL DO NO GOOD, BUT AS YOU WISH. WE CAN EVEN WALK TOGETHER / WE CAN EVEN SMILE. 18 BUTCHERER, DO NOT CHIDE ME. WHAT I DREAM, SO, IS DREAMT. ON THE SERENGETI A MILLION WILDEBEEST--AH 19 FOR ALL THE QUESTIONS THAT SPLASH IN THIS RAPIDS THERE ARE NO ANSWERS GREATER THAN THE ANSWER THAT IS THE SPLASHING ITSELF AS WE WHO WATCH WHO LISTEN WHO FEEL PLAYING WITH THE WINDS & OVER THE ROCKS & AROUND THE WEEDS & INTO & OUT OF OUR SELVES 20 WHICH OF THE TWO IS RIGHT: THE MESSENGER, OR THE MAGNATE? THE DESIGNS OF OUR BARTERINGS RE-CREATE THE WORLD. NEITHER. FOR EACH NEW POWER A NEW COUNTER-POWER. THE AQUARIAN AGE IS THE CHAMELEON AGE. 21 OUR VISIONS CHANGE OUR BARTERINGS. IF THIS MORNING WE ARE RAPIDS, TONIGHT WE MAY BE STARS. THIS LEAF I GIVE YOU IS PREGNANT 22 I HAD A DREAM OF TOURNIQUETS ON THE ARTERIES OF NATIONS AND AN EARTH OF BLOSSOMS OF JOY AND I HAD A DREAM OF NATIONS WHEELED INTO AMBULANCES & SPED OFF TO BE RESTED, TRANFUSED, CURED, THE DOCTORS OF LOVE COME TO PATCH THEIR ARTERIES, LOOSE THEIR TOURNIQUETS, TURN THEIR BLOOD-&-ASHES MINDS. AND I HAD A DREAM OF ANGERS SPEWING OUT OF BEDS, THE DOCTORS OF LOVE STABBED IN THEIR HEARTS, AND AN EARTH OF CRUMBLED BONES. 23 WATCH THIS LEAF, HOW IT RIDES THE CURRENTS 24 THE NIGHT IS SO WARM AND THE WIND SO EASY I WANT TO WALK NAKED UNDER THE MOON - Brian A. J. Salchert

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