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November 9, 2006

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This week’s prompt was: take a snapshot of poetry. I did my usual snapshot poem yesterday, but I also found this: This is just what I pictured, when I named this blog: the ephemeral nature of poetry, of writing — of everything, actually. We work, and write, and post — and no matter how… Continue reading

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DISCLAIMERS:

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.

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