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dead man poem

December 29, 2010

The Dead Man and Memory

Another Dead Man poem. Here is the prompt: Big Tent Poetry Here is my first effort: The Dead Woman and Sex 1. The Dead Man and Memory The dead man isn’t dead yet, he is remembering. He has made promises he has not kept. He has made vows he has broken. He is… Continue reading

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“Big Tent Poetry”, dead man poem, poem

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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.

dead man poem

The Dead Man and Memory