April 23: I wrote a nice couple of paragraphs about two new words of mine, "aesthruption" and "aesthcorrective" yesterday but Google deleted them. I'll comment on them in tomorrow's entry, I hope.
When one of the Wilshberians at New-Poetry made a longish post denigrating a poem he long ago read whose author had a comma after every word, John Latta identified the poets as "most likely José Garcia Villa (1914-1997), born in the Philippines, who invented the 'comma poem,' and . . . apparently not by any means a crank, or a lightweight." I'm always surprised that people bump into poems like the one the Wilshberian did and don't immediately wonder what they could do with its innovation(s). I defended the poet, then remember an old poem of mine I may have already posted here. If so, here it is again:
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I've reproduced my original ink rendering of it. Didn't realize I made it in '64. Apparently it's my second visual haiku. Rather disconcerting to discover how little I've improved since I made it. Anny is going to put it into her Web-Anthology.
When I scanned it, my weird scanner quadrupled its size, and I quickly grabbed the following, as a found poem:
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Okay, it's nothing much, but for some reason I really like it as calligraphy. I also think I can exploit it to fairly substantial effect.
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