I'd often go for several weeks before entering the poems into the computer. A good many poems were abandoned along the way. I did not write every day. At times, I went a couple of weeks without a new poem. When I was hot, I'd write as many as six or seven poems in a day.
Days involves several conflicting impulses.
Many of the poems ask to be understood by being voiced, the saying of them being a process of sorting out their multiple syntactical directions, the saying of them being a manifestation of their specific music. There are handwritten elements incorporated in each poem of Days, though in this electronic version I have had to compromise and make do without the handwritten elements. I have not settled on a final format for Days, and thus each appearance of portions of it, including this chapbook, allows me to explore different alternatives. A good many of the poems also have textual notes or marginalia, usually a reference to a source though, as Jack Foley has recently made me aware, many, even most, of my sources go unacknowledged. At present, I'm working on another final version of Days, moving it toward a hoped for book publication.