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Big Sur S
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Around a corner
a line of cars
A green Ford pick-up truck
another bug a BMW a VW van a red
Cadillac
a Woody with boards in racks on top
a '56 Chevy two-toned white
over powder blue
a Pontiac a Malibu another bug
a road maintenance truck blocking the road
a couple of guys holding shovels
standing in the road covered
with dirt and rocks and shrubs from a slide.
“How long do you think we’ll have to sit here?” Susan asks.
I stop the engine, and we get out and walk to the edge of the cliff. Early morning waves dark green still in shadow. A fishing trawler crawls slowly along a slide of smoke wavy glass wake.
We sit on the edge of the cliff and watch the swells slide toward the rocky beach a hundred feet below.
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The Coming of the Toads 
Very clever Joe. I really enjoyed it.
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Thanks, Geannie!
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Like a movie, lovely moments. How? Want it :)
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Thanks, Ashen. I think the text when enlarged has potential. Anyway, here’s the code (see below). Copy and paste it into your post entry, then substitute your own words. You’ll need to experiment to see what’s working. I got the idea here: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/presentations-shortcode/ Still, it took me a little while to figure it out. This was also helpful: http://en.support.wordpress.com/presentations/
You can begin the post with ordinary text, but where you want the slide show to begin, type as follows: (One thing. For the text in the slides, I used the “pre-formatted” option in the post. Let me know if you are not familiar with that option). Try it and see what happens. I just wanted to see if I could do it. Might do something more with it.
[presentation]
[slide bgcolor=#d3e7f8 rotate=33]
type your text here. Use the “pre-formatted” option here if you want to cut up lines.
[/slide]
[slide bgcolor=#d3e7f8 rotate=45]
Type your text here.
[/slide]
[slide bgcolor=#d3e7f8 rotate=75]
Type your text here.
[/slide]
[slide bgcolor=#d3e7f8 rotate=33]
Type your text here.
[/slide]
[slide bgcolor=#d3e7f8 rotate=45]
Type your text here.
[/slide]
[slide bgcolor=#d3e7f8 rotate=75]
Type Your Text Here.
[/slide]
[/presentation]
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Huh. Thanks for the links and codes. I looked this up, impressive tool. I’m hopeless with complex technical procedures. My son is into presentation tools and might help, once he’s back from Australia. I like the slide tool you use, especially for poetry and vignettes.
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And to decide how much time to devote to it. Might not be worth the time, depending on the goal. I do also like it for poetry, for concrete poetry ideas but also as a means toward an alternative to stanza breaks, line length, pauses, rhythm.
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A very cool format .
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