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August 31, 2004

Charles Cummings: “A life of prayer is a life of beginning all over again.” As is a life of writing. Perhaps a life of writing is a life of prayer. From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000 or·a·to·ry 1. A place for prayer, such as a small private chapel. ETYMOLOGY: … Continue reading

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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.