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The Proust Questionnaire (an exercise in oversharing) 2017

2017/12/06

I did this exactly three years ago; thought it might be time for an update. I have copied the original post; my updated answers appear in square brackets ( [ ] ) below the original answers.
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Me reading three poems, 24 May 2017

2017/06/04

At C&P Coffee, West Seattle. I have yet to go through the videos of me reading at Kanjin Yoga in Seattle on March 31st—but I will get to them eventually. Fortunately, this video was posted by the folks who organized the reading…

(4 June 2017)

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A reflection on impossibility (a poem)

2016/12/13

I picked up on the phrase ‘impossible women’ in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager and ran with it…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged December 2016, me, poem, poetry, problems, relationships, women. Bookmark the permalink.

My complicated relationship with poetry, continued

2016/08/30

In February 2015, I wrote a post called My complicated relationship with poetry.  After re-reading it, I figured it was time for an update…
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged August 2016, biography, history, Kevin, life, me, poetry. Bookmark the permalink.

The chair and I (A poem)

2015/11/28

Self-explanatory…
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Monday afternoon 

2015/06/22 — 2 Comments

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(22 June 2015)

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Wednesday afternoon 

2015/06/17

  

(17 June 2015)

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(I don’t have a good title for this one yet) (a poem)

2015/05/23 — 3 Comments

As I was out and about a few days ago, I saw a woman on the corner, shielding her eyes from the sunlight. The way she was standing reminded me of a mannequin in a store window…
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This entry was posted in Writing and tagged corner, driving, May 2015, me, poem, poetry, pose, woman. Bookmark the permalink.

52 Things About Me

2015/03/17

Yesterday was my 52nd birthday. Unusually for me, I was out and about most of the day, so I never got around to posting this—a list of semi-random bits of trivia, in the order that they came to mind. Continue reading

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My complicated relationship with poetry

2015/02/15

I may edit this later. For now, I am posting it as is, even though I have written about some these things before. In the words of Robert Fripp, it is ‘better to be present with a bad note than absent from a good note.’ Continue reading

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