Thinking Lizard revisited

                       
                                          
                                        
As I remember it, I invented Thinking Lizard
(the icon and the press) and the pen name of    
Alden St. Cloud in 1979.  In 1980 I published   
in the cassette medium and registered with    
The Library of Congress 1976 (the 366   
sonnets and 12 reflections version), Postures,
and Fond du Lac; and in 1981, I believe,  
Rooted Sky.  I no longer have saleable   
copies of these.  In 1982 in Austin, Texas, I
published as a paperback, First Pick, a 
selection which included some poems that were
previously unpublished.  I also registered it
with The Library of Congress.  I have a mockup
of it, but I have dismantled this book.  Soon
thereafter I let Alden St. Cloud die.              
                                                   
Thinking Lizard remains a viable press, but I  
would need to update its ISBN system.  The point
of this rehash is that I self-published books  
of my poems.  Those events are precursors to  
what I have since done online, especially at   
Sprintedon Migrasaurus (thinkinglizard.b---), 
and to what I hope to do in the future: make   
all my books of poems available for free in   
PDF.  As it is, I am not selling any of my poems.    
You are welcome to browse through, and if  
you encounter one you like, link to it or  
display it on your web site.  Heck, you can  
even do that with one you think is horrid.    
                                             
                                           
                                           
                                               
                                     
                                                 
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Recently

                                                 
                                                   
a pair of warblers or finches                  
along with some zipping around  
swallows have been near Sturdy   
Bush.  Swallows do nest in the  
passageways, but I would like   
to know what kind of bird the  
other two are.  They may have   
been here past years too in a  
different location.                  
                                         
Recently I've been trying to eat a   
can of three bean salad.  It hasn't
been going well.  Too stringy and   
the kidney bean skins get stuck in  
my throat and other places, and the   
vinegar, well--it is vinegar.  Will be
eating the last of it tomorrow.   
                                       
Recently, though I haven't written any down yet,
I've been noting lines I like in the anthology of  
poems I got from the library, and have been  
attempting to ascertain why I like them.  Have
renewed the book and will probably do a post 
on some of Emily Dickinson's lines first.               
                                                   
Recently I've been trying to summon the energy  
to get back to posting the rest of Brian's Brain.
It's a large project that once was online at               
Tripod.  Six posts of it are done.  Am not sure
how many more posts will be needed, but the   
completed ones are in size 1 Verdana.  Those   
remaining, therefore, will also be in size 1
Verdana.                                                
                                                     
Recently in KH I posted the covers of 5 books,
each by a different author, along with 1 poem  
from each book.  A hazy theme connects the 5   
poems, so I didn't comment on them.  The five  
authors are William Michaelian, 
                    Tom Montag,                        
                       David Lunde,                      
                          Charles Behlen,              
and                       Gary B. Fitzgerald.             
                                                     
                                                    
                                                   
                                         
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