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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

NaBloPoMo

November 29, 2006

Snapshot Poem 29 November 02006

The Muse 4:00 a.m. choose — green lime or shamrock? paper money in a shoebox yellow — quick! sunlight on polished oak … Continue reading

NaBloPoMo ’06, Snapshot Poems 2006

NaBloPoMo, poem, Snapshot Poem
November 28, 2006

Migraine Storybook Dream

Yes, I do realize that posting dreams is against all reasonable rules, but I just can’t resist this one. I had a migraine, or a fever, and went to bed early in the evening. Then I fell into a storybook. Into Wonderland. I’ll put most of it under the cut. Ready? OK, now sit back… Continue reading

dreams, NaBloPoMo ’06, Stories | Fiction, Wondrous

dream, NaBloPoMo
November 27, 2006

DICK CHENEY IS WATCHING YOU

Made with fd’s flickr toys. He’s become an archetype, hasn’t he? Or inhabited one. I found the original on the sidewalk in downtown Missoula. It made me shudder, and laugh, at once. Continue reading

Art, NaBloPoMo ’06

Dick Cheney, grafitti, NaBloPoMo, sidewalk art, street art, warholized
November 26, 2006

I’m taking the day off . . .

. . . but here’s a squirrel for you: Continue reading

Critters, NaBloPoMo ’06

NaBloPoMo, photo, squirrel
November 25, 2006

Winner!

Well, I did it. I’m not sure what I did, exactly; and I’m not sure why — but I did it. Continue reading

NaBloPoMo ’06, NaNoWriMo ’06

NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo

Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

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.

NaBloPoMo

Snapshot Poem 29 November 02006

Migraine Storybook Dream

DICK CHENEY IS WATCHING YOU

I’m taking the day off . . .

Winner!