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a poet’s notebook

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“Through Corridors of Light”

December 26, 2011

Through Corridors of Light

Today I received an unexpected bit of solstice light in the mail: There are poets in here whom I love and admire: Emily Dickinson, Jane Kenyon, Theodore Roethke, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Elizabeth Bishop – well, the list is long. And then there's me. My poem Fibromyalgia is the fourth in the book: … Continue reading

Books

“chronic fatigue”, “Poems of Consolation”, “Through Corridors of Light”, fibromyalgia, Poems, poetry, publication
December 22, 2011

Through Corridors of Light

Today I received an unexpected bit of solstice light in the mail: There are poets in here whom I love and admire: Emily Dickinson, Jane Kenyon, Theodore Roethke, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Elizabeth Bishop – well, the list is long. And then there's me. My poem Fibromyalgia is the fourth in the book: … Continue reading

Personal, Poems, poetry

“chronic fatigue”, “Poems of Consolation”, “Through Corridors of Light”, fibromyalgia, Poems, poetry, publication

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.