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Thursday Poetry

November 29, 2007

Thursday Poetry: Rabbits & People

Rabbit and Thing Illustration uploaded by erat The Neighbors Debate When discovered by the social worker, the yellow rabbit was nibbling blooming dandelions, violets and clover on the neighbor’s lawn. The circling cats did not disturb it. The rabbit hopped up to the cats and touched twitchy noses. The cats dashed, lickety-split, and dropped back… Continue reading

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October 25, 2007

While Napping in Alaska on a Sunday in October [an old poem]

Winter crawls out of the woods and swallows the town. Shrews slip back to the woodpile. The road slides downhill. Black and white tiles embrace on the kitchen floor. Coffee thickens in the pot while lunch congeals on the plate. The planet turns through crowded space. Dust drifts under… Continue reading

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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.

Thursday Poetry

Thursday Poetry: Rabbits & People

While Napping in Alaska on a Sunday in October [an old poem]