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a poet’s notebook

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30DayPhoto

March 31, 2006

30 Days of Photos

That’s it: My 30 Day Photo Challenge Flickr Set. Now I’m thinking of trying a poem a day for National Poetry Month in April. That would be more difficult to pull off, though. And less entertaining for you, I bet. Continue reading

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30DayPhoto, National Poetry Month, photograph
March 30, 2006

crow

My 30 Day Photo Challenge Flickr Set This is the last day. Whew! Continue reading

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30DayPhoto, bird, crow, photo, photograph
March 29, 2006

glass and dust

My 30 Day Photo Challenge Flickr Set Continue reading

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30DayPhoto, glass, photo, photograph
March 28, 2006

Good Food Store garden wall

I believe this garden may have been designed by the person who helps me with mine: Lori Parr Campbell of Kinship Gardens, here in Missoula, Montana, USA. My 30 Day Photo Challenge Flickr Set Continue reading

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30DayPhoto, garden, garden wall, Good Food Store, photograph
March 27, 2006

riverbank

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30DayPhoto, photograph, riverbank

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.

30DayPhoto

30 Days of Photos

crow

glass and dust

Good Food Store garden wall

riverbank