sw00550a-poem19.tally2

Autobio           Tally 2

[ 2008-01-17 Note:  It is 5:30 PM and I've discovered count errors. 
                             I know it's silly of me to think it matters, but. . . . ]


 Why am I counting my poems, ditties, muttobs again?
 Most likely it's an order obsession.  It isn't to boast.
 This is count2 because at the end of April I struggled
 through a first count.     Here's an e-whip to there.
 If I do one of these every 3 or 4 months, I should be
 able to do each more quickly.
 -
 Interlude:  I've been reading translations of poems by
 Robert Bly, John Knoepfle, and James Wright from a
 book edited and with a new preface by Robert Bly.
 Neruda & Vallejo: Selected Poems is its title.  In it
 is also an interview of Neruda by Robert Bly which
 occurred on June 12, 1966, in New York: "The Lamb
 and the Pinecone" wherein Neruda recounts a mystical
 event in his life.  
  The book was published by Beacon Press  ·  Boston
 in 1993.  Spanish texts are on the even-numbered pages
 and the English translations on the odd-numbered pages.
  One of the sonnets in my 1976: in 2006 is to
 Vallejo.  Two days ago, due to my reading the English
 translations of poems by these poets, four lines (not
 from that sonnet) entered my consciousness:

     Death is the only truth worth living.
     This moment, this moment, this moment, this.
     And so I shall: scatterings of words, of seeds, of clouds.
     I am the wind, the chameleon wind.

 -
 June 2007 is my latest book of poems and most
 of my poems posted in this journal since April are 
 in that book (85).  See the June 2007 archive.

 -
 Now I'll need to do some preparatory work.  Will return 
 when I've finished it.  It is AM 11:11.  It was.
 -

 Other archive places to go to are:

    for "Incantation" - May 10 of 2007 at sw00385jt
    -
    for "String of Days" (21 poems) - May 13 of 2007 at sw00388sc       
    -
    for Prayers in December (33) - May 14 of 2007 at sw00393pindc        
    -
    for The Undulant Trees entries 9-14 - March 16 of 2007 at sw00266utc
          (there are 14 poems in these 6 entries)
    -
    for Venturings entries 13-15 - March14 of 2007 at sw00261vc
    -
    for Autobio (59, 64, 65) and the 4 lines above - April 15 of 2007 at sw00316ac
    -

   164 (see note above)  New count: 85+1 + 21 + 33 + 14 + 3 + 4 = 161 
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total to date: not 771, but 768  (fool proof)


 
 Don't let prejudices you may have prevent you from reading this.
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Brian A. J. Salchert