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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

June 14, 2011

Sometimes things just don’t make sense.

And sometimes it's hard to make sense of things.

This week the Art Journal Caravan scavenger hunt calls for the following items: bottle marked poison; luggage; horseshoe; chameleon or other reptile; thermostat; telescope or binoculars.

At Composition for Collage the focus is horizon line.

Here are the first two results:

I'm rather fond of this one:

Images are linked to flickr, where you will find full credits and larger sizes.

Art Journal Caravan, Collage Challenges, Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

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.

Sometimes things just don’t make sense.

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