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new year haiku

January 3, 2007

New Year Haiku 2007

I keep getting visitors who are looking for New Year Haiku — which I had here, two years ago — when we did a New Year Haiku collaborative poem dance: Andrew tells us there is a tradition of writing a ‘positive’ haiku on the first day of the year. His is here, and Jill has… Continue reading

Poem Dancing, Snapshot Poems 2007

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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.

new year haiku

New Year Haiku 2007