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a poet’s notebook

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spiral

March 14, 2006

Spirals

I see the spiral metaphor everywhere; the idea that we revisit the same issues again and again in our lives, but at different — presumably deeper — levels. A Flickr search found many spiral images — this one at the left was my favorite — I think because of that lovely blue marble, and the… Continue reading

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DISCLAIMERS:

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.

spiral

Spirals