Martha L. Deed appears twice in the historical poetry archive. The sixteenth installment preserves the title Kayaking on the Erie Canal, and the thirtieth installment preserves I got kissed by a crocodile. Both surviving entries identify Deed by the same full credited name and retain exact title-level evidence for separate publication moments. Their poem bodies are absent from the current archive, so this profile records the author, the two titles, their formal properties, and the chronology established by the surviving sources.
Kayaking on the Erie Canal
Kayaking on the Erie Canal is a five-word title built around an activity and a named place. “Kayaking” supplies an action, while “the Erie Canal” gives the title a specific geographic reference. The title therefore preserves a clear verbal structure even though the poem’s lines, stanza design, speaker, and imagery are unavailable.
The sixteenth installment places this work at the earlier of Deed’s two documented appearances. Readers exploring the archive’s broader poetry can use the exact author-title pairing as a stable bibliographic coordinate for future comparison or recovery.
I got kissed by a crocodile
I got kissed by a crocodile survives from the thirtieth installment. Its title is a complete first-person sentence in the past tense. The phrase presents an event through a personal pronoun, a passive verbal construction, and a named animal. These grammatical features belong to the preserved title and can be described directly from the record.
The later appearance extends Deed’s archive chronology across fourteen installments. Within the documentary history of modern poetry, that return matters because it confirms more than one publication moment under the same full author credit.
Two titles, two publication moments
The two records differ sharply in title form. One combines action with a specific place name; the other takes the shape of a first-person sentence. The archive supplies no poem bodies that would justify a broader comparison of their themes, images, voices, or techniques. Their strongest shared evidence lies in authorship and chronology.
This two-entry record places Martha L. Deed among the archive’s documented contemporary poets with a publication history that reaches from the sixteenth to the thirtieth installment. The exact titles preserve enough information to keep both appearances separately identifiable.
Formal boundaries of the source
The surviving records contain no lines from either poem. Meter, rhyme, stanza structure, lineation, recurring imagery, setting inside the poems, and narrative development remain unavailable. Readers interested in poetic forms can still observe the titles as compact linguistic objects: one title is a prepositional place phrase built around an activity, and the other is a complete sentence.
These title-level properties provide documentary precision without extending beyond the evidence. They also give future researchers clear strings to compare against bibliographies, manuscripts, or independently recovered copies.
Martha L. Deed in the archive
The archive preserves four durable coordinates for Martha L. Deed: her full credited name, two exact titles, and two publication placements. Kayaking on the Erie Canal belongs to the sixteenth installment; I got kissed by a crocodile belongs to the thirtieth. Together they establish a repeated presence in an archive that includes experimental poetry and other contemporary writing. The record supports citation, chronology, and future textual recovery while keeping the limits of the surviving source explicit.