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It's been years since I updated...so here it goes.

My favorite haiku from the book was written on June 27, 2006:

I was sitting on the floor watching TV when Ellis crawled up to me, grabbed my shirt and proceeded to use me to pull himself up off of the ground into a standing position.  I laughed...then I cried.  It was a moment when I saw the future and that future was my son one day becoming a man...my equal (if not my better!).

Grabbing my shirt

you pull yourself up...

now we’re eye to eye

July 18, 2005

I encircle

your outstretched body-

napping together

Four Generations

August 2, 2005

four generations

on a hot summer day

a picture for the ages

Wow! I did it...

It's for all intents and pursoses...available. It's just not ready on Amazon.com yet and the image isn't posted to the CreatSpace site yet. Time to order promo materials....

Yet another proof...

A few tangential details to iron out...and then I think it's ready!

Still mulling over this iteration...

Ordered yet another proof...

#29 is the final...

but I'm uploading a test file...just to see...

Proof #5...

Recieved it today...looks good. Need to mull it over before pulling the trigger.

Proof #5...

Just submitted Proof #5...version/draft #37!! Damn a lot of work for a goofy little book for my boy!

A few more...

...poems revised. Still waiting to see proof #4...but it's already obsolete...

Ordered...

Proof #4 today. Minor changes to the preface and the style notes and also three haiku slightly edited for clarity and brevity. The more I reread the more caught up I get in "perfection." Editing is hard...and brain consuming (which isn't too bad right now...I need the focus).

Additional content from the book...

September 8, 2005

For just a moment
your eyes convey
the wisdom of a sage

Waiting...

for the 3rd proof...

A few small changes. Six small errors with tab settings (had to get out a ruler to line up the first letter of stanza lines to spot these) and a bit of a rewrite in the Preface for clarity.

There's a poem I struggled with...maybe rewrite maybe not....decided (for now) not to rewrite.

Pins and needles....

2nd proof...

I ordered the second proof on monday...recieved a package from CreateSpace on wednesday...turns out it was a different book (Sudan's painful road to peace...by Arop Madut-Arop). Sent CreateSpace a message on their website (they don't provide a phone number)....waiting for their reply. I want to finish this so I can release the book for complete publication.

I have a few ideas about adding and/or changing a few minor details...but I want to see what I have so far before I start changing things!

Editing this collection has given me the haiku bug...again. Starting to think like a haiku poet again.

Grego

August 20, 2005

A boyhood friend
visits from afar
you stare and stare and stare