January: Year-day 1

                
 [ last modified: 2009-03-29 ]

 1976 Today is this opus's permanent name
                353 bicentennial year sonnets (1-15)

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1976: in 2006 was the current version of my opus 
of 366 sonnets and 12 reflections: 1976, which was
first published in the cassette medium in 1980 under
my Thinking Lizard imprint and the Alden St. Cloud
pen name I was using at that time.  It was a set of
six cassettes/ for which there are ISBNs as well as
Library of Congress registrations.  
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January: Year-day 1
                                         
With eyes for the shining wind to begin,
I measure this language challenging me:
earth, heaven, purgatory, hell; love, sin:
for we who deepen into mystery
                                              
up boulevards, by hairline meadow trails;
from mountaintops, on journeys to the stars;
through humid summer heats, rancid in jails;
near razor fires & ice, past blue that scars:
                                              
art first, craft second: vision, resonance:
images of the heart, games of the mind:
enchantments ordered to chase time & power
growing dark gusty in my trenchant dance,
in this hard snow, in my doctrinal spine:
grief: joy: where I learn to mend, to scrub, scour.
                                                     
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