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March 16, 2006

Snapshot & Poetry Thursday

MP3 File The Blue Bed I sleep on a high blue bedbetween clouded mountains.I am growing a new brain.This one will be sparklyand fine; it will floatin the fluid of compassion. I sleep flanked by two finedogs on a high blue bed between brushed greencotton and purple flannel.I am growing a new heart.I will beat… Continue reading

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February 18, 2006

Yo, I’m on the Radio

The Weekend Show: February 17, 2006 New audio column by Grace Cavalieri. Poetry by Robert Creeley, Sharon Brogan, Ron Androla and Luc Simonic. Click the banner to go listen. Continue reading

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January 5, 2006

Best of Cafe’ Cafe’ 2005

This snapshot poem was selected as one of the Best of Cafe’ Cafe’ 2005, and Didi asked me to record it for her, which I am pleased to do. MP3 File Snapshot 17 August 02005 I am waiting for the skyto fall. I am waitingto be wrapped in its bluecloak. I wait for this painin… Continue reading

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December 27, 2005

Duck Soup

Didi asked that I post an audio of this very odd poem. This was written in response to one of her challenges: write a poem using all of the following impossible phrases … I’ve done this before, with some success. This one, I think, is less successful — but still, here it is: MP3 File… Continue reading

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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.

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Snapshot & Poetry Thursday

Yo, I’m on the Radio

Best of Cafe’ Cafe’ 2005

Duck Soup