January 2004
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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
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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
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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
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ducks
this morning, a dozen black-headed, white-bottomed ducks, paddling through the ice on the river Continue reading
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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

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