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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

March 28, 2004

Joe

Yesterday, a note from my aunt telling me that Mom had taken my stepfather to the hospital. My mother would not have told me so quickly, not wanting to worry me. He’s there now for a few days, "observation", though the doctors assure us it is most likely a medication reaction; a minor problem.

He is 92 and slowly diminishing. Is there a "minor problem" at 92?

the spider
weaves her web
in the windchimes

Family, small poems

Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Joe

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