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a poet’s notebook

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February 17, 2013

Chronic Illness: 2 sides of the coin

For Dig iDare #311. Some assistance/ inspiration from Turning Straw Into Gold.

After a hard crash, over a week of no poems, no haiku, no pages, this DigiDare seemed a good place to begin again.

[Click the image to see credits & larger sizes at flickr.]

digital art journaling

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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.

Chronic Illness: 2 sides of the coin

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