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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Year of the Dog

January 30, 2006

Year of the Dog

So, we all know it’s the Year of the Dog, right? Are we treating our best friends with the deference they feel they deserve? I certainly hope not. Who, me? I’m a Rat. Continue reading

Critters, Current Affairs

dogs, photograph, Year of the Dog

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, 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.