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The Internet was a distraction this morning: over tea and a bottle of water read a few blogs, tested alltheweb.com’s new engine, sent some emails, making some amendments to the wepress website, etc. Fortunately, through the course of the rest of the day I did manage to do what I wanted to get done, which involved further tightening the poem-texts I’ve been making, and fusing them with acrostics penned yesterday (some of which were unresolved). The tally at this point is 11 new pieces, which I need to read aloud to the family for their input and comments before presenting them elsewhere. This work took most of the day and left me pretty dang knackered. OK though, as it was decent end to a really unique, exciting week where I actually got to focus on poetry for a few days in a row, an element integral to the overall project. Glad to have a few new instances of language to work with, and surely I’ll get to spend plenty of time programming and working with software in the coming weeks.

Roadtrip tomorrow, five or so hours north to Sungei Petani, near where the oldest structures in Malaysia—ruins in the Bujang Valley—can be visited. On saturday south to Penang for three nights, and a parade for Wesak (a few days late) on Monday. Got notebooks, minidisks, cameras packed in a bag, and will bring the laptop too, although I might not be back in blogspace ‘til tuesday.

Leave off with the poem I mentioned yesterday, for “Pulau Redang:”

Palm patio pool probably plugs pictures
Unsmooth underwater undeveloped
Lunch lizard long leaves
As an arrival awkward and air asia
Up!

Reef resplendent remarkable rife
Ebullient effusive exquisite eye/sights
Dramatic diverse diving discourse
April astounding azure aquatic active Atlantis
Naval nautical nemotic neural
Growth gorgeous glorious garden