December 18, 2003

2003 poetry retrospective Since it has been about a year ago that i started writing in the poetry form more intensively i thought it would be a good time for a retrospective! Not being able to settle on a single format i am offering three, each with slightly different content, all have the same folded booklet format, but with different graphics and color photographs. So vote for which you think is a good format by asking for it! The basic Black and white, compact version, is also available on these pages Also available is one with a few complementary photographs and an additional longer poem about spiders. The third version features a 2004 calendar as well. These booklets are still free however your donations will support the artist, and others who would also like copies...Thanks! Send your requests for these or other booklets in the rePsychlery series on to me. If you would like them by mail please also include a SASE (self addressed stamped envelope). While on the topic of retrospectives i might also mention that i have submitted a number of items to the Poets Against the War site as well. And note that i have a blog devoted to Poetry: And of course there is the rePsychal discussion group, and our occasional get togethers! All of these will overlap somewhat as i think to publish one way or another... One way or another i look forward to more rePsychaling and just plain fun word plays with you! In principio erat Verbum, "In the Beggining was the Word" see the Sri Yantra graphic in its relation to the opening of the Latin Mass. 4:27:49 PM    comments []

October 10, 2003

mirror circles communities are mirror/circles each woMan is the intersection society is this truer mir/\cle ourselves weaving a reflection endless mirrors recede in mist woven in lights of expectation the love that makes us coexist an infinity of our combination Oh what society we could leave being in your unbordered midst our deFocussed eyes all seeing so shall all communities weave cyclopean view none are missed flow through O Mitakuye Oyasin 10:46:04 AM    comments []

October 9, 2003

the poesis of trackback i had this bad experience with trackback in the summer when i started blogging and it was new to Radio. So it is only today that i decided to try to reinstall it. Now i am wondering how and which of all these links get hooked up;) At the moment the creativity of trackback is still rather intense. Waiting for all the servers to sync up makes debugging tedious and highly asynchronous. my goal is to use the Harvard server for the trackback links. At the moment i am testing on RadioU's servers ... but i cannot get RadioU to respond for most of my pages. In particular only the `Home Page' now shows the `trackback' links. And the test links i want to work with are in categories... Perhaps it is because categories use different themes? Or perhaps it is because the RadioU server is never completing its updates? Ok looks like it is the Theme that is the problem. So i will stick to the main blog for testing. So there i see that my links are not being served as trackbacks... So i will stick the trackback link (which finally i could get by going to the main page's copy of the post i am linking to!;-) into the URL's to ping ... autodiscovery does not seem to be working ... have to find out about that later. Still cannot increment that trackback counter for my August 6th entry. The references say i should be seeing a screen with the outgoing ping ... but that was for MoveableType not Radio... And why does the `URLs to Ping' field empty itself when i go back to redit the entry? Does the entry not keep track of where it pings or is there a glitch in my setup? Well it is still not holding onto those `URLs to Ping' ... but pings are going through!! How is one supposed to remember whom one pinged?? i was getting adrErrorString in place of the edit form on my radio home page. Yet in another window i had the form. So i dismissed the bad one and next time i looked at my cited post it had a trackback on it! ... But again how does one know one has pinged another post? Do i need a `trackforward'? Right now RadioComments seems to be down so testing may be out of the question for a while... i get empty trackbackcounts and a time out when i click the trackback link. Working again. Still no `trackforward' refs. The data seems to be there in weblogData.root so i guess one has to figure out how to hack the home page editing form so the `URLs to Ping:' comes preloaded with URLs already Pinged:) Would that mean multiple trackback hits? So far no. All my rev's of this item show up as a single trackback on item 25 OK, leave that aside. Next task is to get the Harvard trackback server to handle the tracking. Need to keep this enterprise somehow vendor independent. But the morass of absolute URL's is truly daunting. Is there anyway in Blogdom to create relative references? Or at least to use DNS names through out ... eg substitute www.myowndomain.com for radio.weblogs.com/0127271 everywhere, consistently? That would go a long ways to vendor independence. Could that be hacked? Hmm i wonder have i poisoned all my trackback links with RadioU values? Would i need to do a `republish all' to clean up the muddle so i do not get some blokes tracking me with RadioU links while i only monitor throught Harvard? Guess i can check some trackback links in unchanged categories to test. Such a simple seeming thing TrackBack, Englebart and Nelson said it should be ... but it is 2003 and it is still pretty fragile. Such is the Poesis of Trackback. 7:03:06 PM    comments []

October 2, 2003

Zoo Life Problematic for Peripatetic Carnivores #date 03/06/27 Sein Blick ist vomVorübergehn der Stäbe so müd geworden, daß er nichts mehr hält. Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt. Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte, der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht, ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte, in der betäubt ein großer Wille steht. Nur manchmal schiebt der Vorhang der Pupille sich lautlos auf—. Dann geht ein Bild hinein, geht durch der Glieder angespannte Stille— und hört im Herzen auf zu sein. Rainer Maria Rilke The Panther In the Jardin des Plantes, Paris ... From unremitting experience his gaze on the flickering of a thousand bars seeing only barriers comes to glaze even in the imagining only more mars The easy power of his lissom stride paces around ever smaller orbits bespeaking magical dances deep inside of a great will in numbed eclipse When a crack unshutters that timeless haze a flash of the real dashes freely through that taut body poised like a temples maze straight to the heart, and vanishes from view - tr, greg heil 9:14:21 AM    comments []

September 11, 2003

Gender Genie http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.php Gender Genie Well i submitted about two dozen of my poems to a text analysis that was supposed to determine my gender. Only 3 of the poems came up as male authored and one ambiguous! So then i just sent the entire file (17000 words) as one unit, and still it came down firmly on the side of female authorship. So there you have it. God made a mistake;) Actually the sites own statistics indicate they are wrong (by customer reports) 60.61% of the time! So one would do much better by taking them at the opposite of their word! The algorithm designers (who claim 80% success rate) are working with the web site now to see if they can improve the accuracy a little according to the NYT. They also note it is meant for longer prose samples... 7:54:18 PM    comments []

August 25, 2003

autonivourous spider O Kali Eyed (OKE) i own these skys it is our boros our borocity arboretum it is your bodice i sweep off the web of the spidey OKE i your autonivourous pole shiva to thee shakti your being drips through Spideys web finely oh so finally into my dust mop gliding along the geometric lines of my abode, my sky OKE you ooze your being with Spideys legs from lips to nooks to crags to eye to grannies yoni i dance and you shape into material OKE When i dance you through in my glittering palatial towers hurtling there will be none of you and all of me and nothing between me and thee orboros OKE Your web i gather braiding the cables of my empire the sieve of my mop braids and reweaves thee into my maw into me come to me OKE Then i descend from thee again to me Mother of that which is woven i build thee we make me come into me i open my arms i O i OKE Just one more dance of me in thee thee in me i de'a'd in thy thy dei'tified mind sprung to mine here i am me as thine O body thee of mine come time come Kali come time come calendering me OKE i become aware in thy vastness so beyond an emptiness rarified ethereal thee enveloped refracted the light of me i spin and thy manna fills my maw in gaseous amrita OKE Then i mopped and washed and shined to your breasts there we wrestled sweat to metal from ethereal to iron ic but no, the comic repeats, yet more OKE more Are there more verses refracting ether to shinning metal consuming from idea to idyll ingesting the air sweeping the seas gardening and husbanding nibbling up to your flocks such vast edens from breast to yoni and back to rest i versus OKE A lonesome mason shapes your heart as you view apart your waifs run with me to timbers in the belfry echoing through halls in clear tones OKE Echoes of my own reflected refracted mirroring web of light one saintly photonic spark shafting through womanly thee O Kali 9:13:03 PM    comments []

August 24, 2003

Couplet words in a couplet twas there we met who would have guessed together we`d be blessed breathing the same rhyme your meter came to mine rePsychled from the dance thoughts fused in romance 11:43:51 AM    comments []

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