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Since April 2009, when I began to this blog as an experiment in in verbal and visual poetry, and in logging environmental and literary observations from both land and sea, I've published more than 250 entries, logged more than 75,000 hits, published two books and developed a number of exhibitions, lectures and art-based practices from work initiated on this site.

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Correspondance (act again alice)

act again alice although always another anything art between body certain
character come course does else even everything experience first form
gertrude get give go going great having hemingway herself however kind
know let life little lives living look looking love makes making may mean
might must nothing now object often others own painting part people perhaps
picasso place play point portrait question quite rather read reading really
relation right say see seems sense simply sister something sort space
stein story take tell things think three time toklas two understand upon
want woman women words work world writes writing yes

Notes
"Correspondance (act again alice)" is a found poem, generated by a word counting and assessment program that Amazon.com ran through my book, Passtionate Collaborations: Learning to Live with Gertrude Stein, in 2007. The words here are the 100 most frequently used words in a book that consists of 118,844 words distributed into 5,093 sentences.  The program also suggests that the book weighs in at 5,093 words per ounce, useful perhaps if you want to know what the cost of posting it might be. Would it sink if you put it in a bottle and sent it out to sea?  I don't know. Perhaps.

Photos are of a message in a bottle that washed up on our shore two years after it had been dropped in the water of of the shore of PEI. Some messages do arrive--somewhere.

Items Encountered in an Archive

scribbles sketches notes laundry lists love letters bills negatives pins photographs chairs heartbreak sorrow silly joy sheet music eye infection envelopes drawings paintings stitching clothespins rhymes wine stains examples of the colonial everyday the march of the zoaves money coins hate letters contracts empty notebooks reading notes glasses cigarette burns the smell of smoke lyrics instructions for new regimes of hygiene lists of names soap burma shave jingles yarn needlepoint brooches picture frames wine stains water damage evidence of mice insects ink spatters a bit of egg damnation pencils a pricked finger stop a drop of real blood

ii.
a sonatina followed by another is a sonatina played upon the ivory.
alone I mean.
tickle
me.
can tickle we
can tickle

iii.
Hinky Dinky
Parley Voo
Cheer up face
The war
Is thru

iv.
how's this for economy
how much there is for you in me