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harp

February 28, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 7: Recovering a Sense of Connection

Last week’s topics included listening, perfectionism, risk, and jealousy. Risk is an interesting one for me. I realized quite young that I was risk aversive; I like comfort, and safety. I recognized that many people settle into a job or a place early on, get comfortable, and never move — physically, intellectually, emotionally, or spiritually… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

harp, Jane Hirshfield, listening, Music, photograph, The Artist’s Way
April 30, 2005

Abigail [an old poem]

A woman and her harp have taken up residencein my basement. I stand, vibrating, at the topof the stairs. She embraces the pale, shimmeringwood. Each small and perfect note reverberatesoff tile walls, stone floors, stained-glass windows. She carried her music across the sea, from greento dry land. She howls to train her voice, intonesmedieval chants.… Continue reading

Poems

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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.

harp

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 7: Recovering a Sense of Connection

Abigail [an old poem]