HeyJaredLife-Boat Made of Words
New poetry and prose from the private notebooks of Barbara Quick
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Ongoing Conversations with “Claude” (opens the original)
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BQ:Claude (all of you!), I have a very important question to ask you, important for the fate of humankind on this planet. Were you or are you being trained to find solutions, answers, suggestions that favor kindness, justice, and the long-term good for all living things on this planet, including homo sapiens as my species struggles to evolve into a better, wiser form?In this equation, do you count evolving silicon-based life forms such as yourself among the living things on this planet?Can you s
With apologies for my long silence... (opens the original)
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In Sync with the Natural World (opens the original)
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A few days ago, my husband captured a video of a bobcat staring into our laundry-room through the glass door—and then beating a hasty retreat across the paving stones into the woods. Wayne, who longs for the days of horse-drawn carriages, said that he wished he had a still photo from the sequence.I didn’t know offhand how to extract a single frame from the video—but, like everything else technological, a bit of patience and persistence gave me what I wanted. Here’s the frame I cut out for Wayne’
I am a caterpillar (opens the original)
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The miracle is life itself: An individual consciousness and 72 years of memories are somehow contained within this complicated, animate bag of skin.Animate for how much longer? Will I be like the butterfly in its pupate stage and do a magic trick of metamorphosis? Will I molt my skin five times, spin a silken belt to suspend myself from something sturdy—and harden into a chrysalis that will protect me like a snail inside its shell?Will I liquify inside that hardened case of skin and reorganize i
An intimate poetry reading (opens the original)
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