POETICKS

I continue to believe someday people will be interested in how various poems of mine came about.  Hence, the following three stages of my unfinished “Cursive Mathemaku, No. 2″:

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I scribbled notes for version one, then took weeks to draw my ideas at Paint Shop, and more weeks to put them together in a work something like version one, which is probably the third version of the finished base of the poem.  Almost two months went by before I dared add the final cursive lines I always meant the work to have to make version two.  Over a week went by before I made (today) the more well-thought-out third version.  I’m pretty sure both that the third version (already revised two or three times–modestly) is the one I’ll go with.  I’m looking forward to adding colors, with a good idea of what they’ll be, although I never go with all or even most of the colors I use in a work.

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