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a poet’s notebook

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mondo beyondo dream lab + gifts of imperfection

January 19, 2011

Me at 3, and a Snapshot Poem

I pulled this photo out for an assignment from the mondo beyondo dream lab + the gifts of imperfection class*: Your task today is to find a childhood photo of yourself and dedicate a song to the tender part of you who is making her way back to her whole heart. For the song,… Continue reading

mondo beyondo dream lab + gifts of imperfection, Snapshot Poems 2011

brene brown, gifts of imperfection, mondo beyondo dream lab, Snapshot Poem
January 9, 2011

Isolation and Shame

There are side effects of long illness. Isolation is one of them. I was lucky, relative to other folk with chronic illness, in many ways. I was lucky to not have a partner who would — or would not — struggle with this burden. Some few may be lucky to have partners who… Continue reading

mondo beyondo dream lab + gifts of imperfection, One Little Word

Ali Edwards, brene brown, chronic illness, isolation, One Little Word, scrapbooking, shame

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Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, 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.

mondo beyondo dream lab + gifts of imperfection

Me at 3, and a Snapshot Poem

Isolation and Shame