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May 25, 2011

There is no Elephant.

A little series on denial, with which, of course, I have only the most passing familiarity:

All images are linked to flickr, where you will find full credits and larger images.

Collage Challenges, Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

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arby

May 29, 2011 at 10:18 am

These are elephant images are wonderful! Timely for me too. I’ve had my own “elephant in the room” to live with and I collage’d him into a comic blue elephant to take off the weight of him. Then, last week, I was delighted to have a dream that included the image of a baby elephant romping about in the prairie grass. I took this to be good news, if not of course, another elephant growing someplace? I prefer to think that my old one is shrinking.

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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.

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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.

There is no Elephant.

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