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"Images Seen Through a Passing Car Window". 31 poems. 80 pages. 6000 words. Four years of work. Finally FINISHED.

Who wants to read it?

(And yes, Butterfly Boucher is officially the soundtrack for this book...)

So, when I woke up, decided "Perspective" needed a slight rehauling--relining (shorter lines) and a new, better ending. Even bigger reconstructing going on with "Suburban Music" which more closely resembles what I wanted in the first place. Similar things happening with section IV. on the title poem ("Images Seen Through a Passing Car Window") to ( Read more... )

--that even when I wake up in the morning sometimes, I'm up 24 hours and I get back to the waking up at midnight thing, lol ( Read more... )

Three more poems to do, "University of Birds" and total rewrites of "My First Memory" and "Labor Day"... Jesus. Okay, it should be getting real close now, but I prolly won't get back to Sac State till tomorrow, right now I'ma try to take a nap and then later, get to Crossroads and junk... and take a break from the constant twittering I've been ( Read more... )

This is quite officially the last leg of the tour... at least until after I get people to start reading it. Then I might get comments and junk that'll convince me to change things, buy right now I'm just working to make it the best book it can be ( Read more... )

I've been trying all through the early morning hours to write the next two parts of this poem... but the process is gonna go as fast as it's subject (snails). The first section came out really well, with the inspiration of a really great first line ("this is how we discovered death"). Strangely, it wants to become one of the most autobiographical ( Read more... )

Problems: the computers at my mom house, for some inane reason, no longer have Word on them...;_; Was gonna go over to the Sac State library and do it, but they're closed today...gah!

Also, I think the collection wants one more, multi-movement poem... on snails. I wrote a section for this the same April I did "Pose" and "Pespective" (that was 2007 ( Read more... )

So, you know how I've been saying I"ve been close to finishing the collection for aboot six months now? I just had a few poems left to write ( Read more... )

--LJ, but Twitter is where you can keep up to date on some of my more moment-to-moment activities... slutty activities. ;P

So, Brian called me tonight--it's always fun talking to him, wild and loud. But it makes me miss Sacramento more and question whether I'd be happier living it up there or doing my thing here in Whittier... not sure on that one.

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