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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

July 14, 2017

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For Tangie Baxter’s Art Journal Emporium. Elements are from Anna Aspnes, Paula Kesselring, and Tangie Baxter. The font is Arial. The poem is mine:

i want to
curl up
in your armpit
like a cat

bury
my nose
in your fur

kiss
your eyelids
bite
your shoulder
lick
your beard

lose
then find
myself
in the palms
of your hands

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Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, 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.

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