June

2026

1. A bit of editing on The Road to Prosher - Chapter 3     (as of 2026-06-22)

2. Diary entry Saturday, June 20, 2026     (as of 2026-06-20)

3. Wrote and uploaded Still, a potential  death poem (hoping  I would die but not trying to), while at Gateway Vista in Lincoln, NE.   (as of 2026-06-12)

May

2026

1. Wrote Diary entry about a dream: Thursday, May 21, 2026, 08:23:46 AM   (as of 2026-05-21)

   • And made minor (punctuational mainly) updates to The Yellow Brick Road.    (as of 2026-05-21)

2. Snippets that I hope will someday form one or more  wholes   (as of 2026-05-07)

April

2026

3. I wrote and uploaded Oneiric Art      (as of 2026-04-26)

4. I also added to the at The Lion website a page called  Food      (as of 2026-04-25)

5. I am working on Statement Concerning My Spirituality      (as of 2026-04-19)

6. Almost all of my available energy these last two months has been spent working on at The Lion, and coping with medical issues     (as of 2026-04-02)

March

2026

February

2026

1.  revised part of the notes for my poem On Roncheval's Death to add WWW links    (as of 2026-02-02)

January

2026

I have been doing a lot of work, revising and annotating my unpublished poetry, in anticipation of the possibility of having a book of my poetry published during this year.

2. submitted a manuscript of A Scansion Of Life an 80-page book, formerly known as The Yellow Brick Road and Other Poems, to Four Way Books for inclusion in the Levis Prize in Poetry. I have no idea if it has any chance at all!       (as of 2026-01-16)

3. revised parts of Of Rubble      (as of 2026-01-10)

4. related more detailed context of the poem in the notes, for The Parting.     (as of 20216-01-09)

December

2025

1. numerous changes to my poetry as I try to prepare a book-length manuscript      (as of 2025-12-25)

2. continued Kathleen Ann Zorko      (as of 2025-12-22)

3. wrote and added 1972 New Year's Morning    (as of 2025-12-22)

4. renamed "Ramble On" to Tempest Moon  & tweeked it   (as of 2025-12-22)

5. added a paragraph the introduction for to my Sprituality: Thoughts     (as of 2025-12-19)

6. worked, slightly, on The Rogue Saint     (as of 2025-12-19) 

7. added an Addendum to the text of The Rosary as the Fifth Gospel that looks at the introductory and concluding prayers with some notes.     (as of 2025-12-19) 

8. added The Rosary as the Fifth Gospel     (as of 2025-12-18) 

9. added The voice of one crying in the wilderness     (as of 2025-12-17) 

10. added Remergence ; This includes an addition to the Notes in the The Yellow Brick Road  concerning The Tranfiguration and Brigitte.    (as of 2025-12-09)  

11. added the meditation How to understand the Bible     (as of 2025-12-08)  

12. added the meditation Why I believe in Santa Claus, for Chloe and Eleanor    (as of 2025-12-08) 

13. updated (slightly) The Diamond     (as of 2025-12-06)  (re the numen)

November

2025

14. changed the title of my essay Poetic Evolution  to  Modern Poetic Evolution     (as of 2025-11-27). 

15. revised, and I hope clarified, my essay Note on the Presentation of Poetry     (as of 2025-11-27). 

16. wrote my (new) poem: The Tidal Pool Beneath Chimney Rock     (as of 2025-11-25) 

17. updated at The Lion - History & Purpose     (as of 2025-11-22)  

18. updated info on at The Lion     (as of 2025-11-21)  

19. did some cosmetic work on at The Lion - The Team     (as of 2025-11-21)   

20. updated The Diamond     (as of 2025-11-21)  

21. updated Talking with God     (as of 2025-11-19) 

22. added my short essay The Point of Christianity     (as of 2025-11-19) 

23. added my essay The Significance of Context II    (as of 2025-11-18)  

24. improved the notes for (my poem) An Encounter With Weldon Kees   (as of 2025-11-16)  

25. wrote The Significance of Context    (as of 2025-11-16) 

26. reorganized several items under Mark Fairchild' Poetry / Essays.     (as of 2025-11-16)

27. wrote a poem What the Hell Is A Poet?  (as of 2025-11-15) 

28. wrote Note on the Presentation of Poetry    (as of 2025-11-15)

29. reformatted the renku 2011-09-25 Autumn Renku to make it read properly as a collection of poems, each linked to the previous poem.    (as of 2025-11-09)

30. revised my poem My Tired Soul as Tired Soul   (as of 2025-11-09)

31. revised poem: My Tired Soul   (as of 2025-11-08)

32. added a new poem: My Tired Soul   (as of 2025-11-06)

October

2025

1. added an essay: Poetic Evolution   (as of 2025-10-20)

2. wrote my new poem(s) Three Haiku & A Tanka   (as of 2025-10-17)

3. I am changing the website to NOT link to my unpublished poetry, so that I can work on it and get feedback from other poets and critics concerning it, prior to submitting it for  publication.  If anyone wants to read one of my unpublished poems  for this purpose, prior to my submitting them to a publisher, please send me your request to dopearmoth@gmail.com, and I will, in most cases, do so.  (as of 2025-10-16)

4. made various alterations and revisions to the poems in my  In The World and Not Of The World  (as of 2025-10-14)

5. added to Spiritual Thoughts Saying Grace for my grandchildren  ... still needs some work! (as of 2025-10-14)

6. wrote my poem Cicadae Song  (as of 2025-10-13)

7. wrote my poem The Parting  (as of 2025-10-13)

8. added Journal entry 2025-10-12-001 Neihardt  (as of 2025-10-12)

9. revised my poem  poem  Diabetic  (as of 2025-10-04

10. wrote my poem The World Around Us  (as of 2025-10-04)

11. revised my poem The Infernal Machine   (as of 2025-10-04)

12. 2025-10-03)

13. wrote my new poem The Infernal Machine  (as of 2025-10-03)

September

2025

14. wrote a new poem (1st draft), Birth of a Tanka  (as of 2025-09-25)

15. wrote a new poem (1st draft), The World Around Us  (as of 2025-09-23)

16. wrote a new (1st draft)  poem Diabetic  (as of 2025-09-21)

17. updated page layout for CLPP Renga & Its History   (as of 2025-09-21)

18. wrote a new (1st draft)  poem Diabetic  (as of 2025-09-21)

19. added towards a History of Poetry in Nebraska under CLPP Renga, because it echoes my purpose in starting the CLPP project to begin with. For it to be anything worth reading, I will need other people to contribute to it. (as of 2025-09-20)

20. Revised my disclaimer on the landing page to clarify part of the purpose of the website.  (as of 2025-09-17)

21. Reorganized and revised poems into what I hope will eventually become a book:  more might be added  later, but it is a beginning (as of 2025-09-16)

22. added diary entry 09/15/25, 09:15:33 AM -- I am Marian. (as of 2025-09-15) 

23. adedd Note 3 Statement on "A"

24. clarified, I hope, my thoughts concerning the Liverpool Poets in the intro to my attempt at a chapbook Stellar Blue (as of 2025-09-07) 

25. added three paragraphs to "A" & PTSD - 1965 - 1970  (as of 2025-09-04)

26. added what I will call an essay: to Chloe & Elle: On Art  (as of 2025-09-02) 

27.  began to revise my Autobiography with:  (as of 2025-09-01) 

    1. added the page Prologue   (as of 2025-09-01) 

    2. the section KVS and its pages:   (as of 2025-09-01)

       1. Kathleen Anne Zorko (in progress)   (as of 2025-09-01)

       2. to be followed, later, by Sarah Louise (Sieler) Fairchild (not yet begun)

August

2025

1. diary entry 2024-08-28-001   (as of 2025-08-28)

2. added photos to notes for my poem Cats I Have Known Best  (as of 2025-08-27)

3. added my spiritual essay The Campfire Of My Soul  (as of 2025-08-27) 

4. wrote my poem Cats I Have Known Best  (as of 2025-08-26)

5. wrote my poem Deathwatch (2)   (as of 2025-08-24)

6. added diary entry 2025-08-21, Thursday 09:23:00 AM  (as of 2025-08-21)

7. revised, for clarity, my spiritual essay The Bishop vs the Drag Queen (as of 2025-08-21)

8. dded a page to my autobiography appendices, Letter to a priest about Kathy. (as of 2025-08-20)

9. revised the first stanza of my poem Pearmoth and updated the notes. (as of 2025-08-20)

10. added a spiritual essay The Bishop vs the Drag Queen (as of 2025-08-18)

11. added a link to Kathy's website Värnsgarth.
    Glynis Brythe was my castle in the kingdom of Värn, where Kathy was known as the Lady Nay Hearthwith, and  I was known as Sir Dol Mifftallow. Some (few) of the paintings and drawings in her Värnsgarth website were created in my apartment on R Street, which we called Glynis Brythe. I loved her deeply and will miss her dearly! (as of 2025-08-18)

12. updated the following upon realizing Kathy Zorko had died (all as of 2025-08-16) :

    • my poem: Beyond The Tenses Of Time 

    • a section in my autobiography: Exiled to Lincoln - 1970 - 1975 

    • the first, but most relevant, of many appendices to come: KAZ & MDF FB correspondence excerpt 

13. updated the section in my autobiography on Kathy in Exiled to Lincoln - 1970 - 1975 after I found out she died in January of last year.  Now to two women I loved most have died.  (as of 2025-08-15) 

14. wrote  my poem Last Things (1)   (as of 2025-08-14) 

15. started a photo ppendix on the Prairie Peace Park     (as of 2025-08-12)

16. added Sarah's poem (a haiku) Blowout Penstemon.     (as of 2025-08-12)

17. transcribed and added Sarah's poem Barking Dog.    (as of 2025-08-12)

18. added a  diary entry   (as of 2025-08-11)

19. added a diary entry   (as of 2025-08-09)

20. made slight revisions to the notes in my poem Autumn Moon Tanka   (as of 2025-08-07) 

21. added spiritual thoughts essay What St. Mark's on the Campus' Mission ought to be (IMHO)   (as of 2025-08-07)

22. wrote my new poem Autumn Moon Tanka  (as of 2025-08-06) 

23. added cat and some other photos to Photo Appendices   (as of 2025-08-05) 

24. wrote wrote my poem Succubus  (as of 2025-08-05) 

25. made my 2nd revision to  my essay People of the WIS  (as of 2025-08-03) 

26. rewrote sections of the page about The Road To Prosher to clarify some things  (as of 2025-08-02)

27. wrote My Literary Bio (as of 2025-08-02)

28. updated the landing page to include a self-portrait of me as Bernan (as of 2025-08-02) 

29. added more photos (of Sarah) to Photo Appendices  (as of 2025-08-02) 

30. wrote an essay, People of the WIS  (as of 2025-08-01)  

July 

2025

1. 1. 1. added more photos and links to Mark Fairchild Self Representations   (as of 2025-07-31) 

      2. added Barbara (Pakard) Sieler's poem On a Hayrack (as of 2025-07-31) 

      3. added Barbara (Packard) Sieler's poem On My Homework (as of 2025-07-30)

      4. added a menu for Barbara (Packard) Sieler's poetry (Sarah's mother)  (as of 2025-07-30)

      5. added numerous photos to Mark Fairchild Self Representations   (as of 2025-07-29) 

      6. substantially revised the introduction on My Roads Taken  (as of 2025-07-29)

      7. wrote an essay, On Education (as of 2025-07-28) 

      8. added a diary entry   (as of 2025-07-27)

      9. updated My Current Status   (as of 2025-07-26)

      10. wrote wrote my new poem Thor's Day. I included n the comments, as I intend to do in the future and for all my creative works after I finish Sarah's: "MarkFairchildCompleteCollectedWorks"  (as of 2025-07-24)

      11. began adding "SarahFairchildCompleteCollectedWorks" as the last note in each of Sarah's poems, to facilitate searching for her poems and other of her original writings when I find them on this website. It is a process that might take a long time to complete. (as of 2025-07-23)

      12. revised my poem  Four A.M. (as of 2025-07-23)

      13. added Sarah's poem Early November    (as of 2025-07-22)

      14. wrote my  new poem Cat's Mountain   (as of 2025-07-21)

      15. added my  new poem Child of Light    (as of 2025-07-21)

      16. rewrote sections of the introduction to my essay  Mark Fairchild's Poetry, especially as concerns haiku.   (as of 2025-07-20)

      17. rewrote and added a few sections in my introduction to The Road To Prosher   (as of 2025-07-20)

      18. wrote a my new poem-set, Nine Haiku   (as of 2025-07-20)

      19.  added my essay What has 'poetry' become today?  (as of 2025-07-18)

      20. wrote my new poem Four A.M. (as of 2025-07-16)

      21. made changes to the formatting of my stage script Heracles in advance of a possible rewrite. (as of 2025-07-15)

      22. changed some spelling in my essay Finding God and added a footnote to explain the change (as of 2025-07-13)

      23. edited  my essay Ecumenism, As I Understand It to increase clarity (as of 2025-07-12)  

      24. added an addendum to my essay Of The Yellow Brick Road   (as of 2025-07-10)

      25. added new, 1st rough draft of my essay Ecumenism, As I Understand It  (as of 2025-07-06)  

      26. tried to clarify a point or two in My Current Status  (as of 2025-07-06) 

      27. added my new essay Of The Yellow Brick Road   (as of 2025-07-04)

      28. added my 2015 poem To The Dance With Death   (as of 2025-07-03).

      29. updated Sarah's Salt Valley Seasons to make the various  poems'  title fonts more uniform  (as of 2025-07-02)

      30. wrote my new poem Perversions of the Gospel   (as of 2025-07-02).

      31. updated the section on Cathy Rada in Education & Monasticism - (1970 - 1975)   (as of 2025-07-01).

June

2025

1. added this page ":Most Recent Updates" to lessen crowding on the landing page  (as of 2025-06-30).

2. added Sarah's poem sequence Three Haiku  (as of 2025-06-29).

3. wrote my new poem Little Mouse's Year  (as of 2025-06-29).

4. added an image of the artwork, by Meghan Stratman, that Sarah's ekphrastic poem Such Deadly Wolves Around The Town Tonight, was about.  (as of 2025-06-28).

5. rewrote a section of my poem The Yellow Brick Road  during  which Brigitte & I talked  for five+ hours in la gare   (as of 2025-06-26).

6.  added Sarah's poem No Words  (as of 2025-06-22).

7. added Sarah's poem Such Deadly Wolves Around The Town Tonight  (as of 2025-06-22).

8. added a list of "Publications" as of 1993 to Sarah Fairchild's Poetry.  (as of 2025-06-21) 

9. added a detailed, linkable table of contents to  Sarah's Salt Valley Seasons. (as of 2025-06-21).

10. revised (slightly) my poems The Yellow Brick Road & Dear CEM (mainly formatting and notes). (as of 2025-06-16).