January 2004

  • privacy & exposure

    This process of building websites, and doing an online notebook, raises for me issues of privacy and exposure – how much to reveal? What really is the interest of the (unknown) audience? & when may I name names, and when may I not? Is the reader knowledgeable enough to realize that poetry is fiction, that… Continue reading

  • Erin’s Kind Words

    Erin’s kind wordsof January 14: sb, whose comments turn up here from time to time, has a brand new website — I’m excited. I know her from Zeugma, where we don’t see enough of her fine, sensitive work. She’s one of the best of us. Good to get another dose. Later: everyone *must* go read… Continue reading

  • sonnet in search of a title

    The moonlit field is haunted by the brush of hunting shadow wings. The field mouse stops — her heart a frantic rythym in the hush of grassy murmur, field brook rush, the plop of water on the rocks — as wings dip once then down the sound of owl descending, loud to ears now straining… Continue reading

  • ducks

    this morning, a dozen black-headed, white-bottomed ducks, paddling through the ice on the river Continue reading

  • too much to learn

    This whole process has been much more demanding than I had anticipated. I went online sooner than I should have — the software makes it too easy to just plunge ahead.  With advice from Gary; support from Erin; and help from friend Niki, who lent me books on web design, all has now been completely… Continue reading