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April 2, 2007

Whose poem is this?

I found it in a neglected
corner. Dusty. Dim.
Slightly larger than ordinary.

A cat’s eye. A shooter?
Light passes, bends
through the edges.

At the center, this swirl of dark
color. Smooth and cold
at the heart of the hand.

Someone must miss it.
Is it yours?

NaPoWriMo

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Dave

April 4, 2007 at 10:29 am

Now that you mention it, I think I have lost a few marbles…

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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.

Whose poem is this?

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