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The Dead AI version of Me: A Living Author's Exploration of Artificial Intelligence and a Dead Version of Himself [Part 1 of a 3 Part Series, Written by the Real, and Not-Dead-Yet Don Rearden]

Don Rearden

Mar 68 min read

The Dead AI version of Me: A Living Author's Exploration of Artificial Intelligence and a Dead Version of Himself [Part 1 of a 3 Part Series, Written by the Real, and Not-Dead-Yet Don Rearden]

One evening this past fall, as I drove home with my son from his flag football practice, a spot for a rebroadcast of an Alaska Public...

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Don Rearden

May 14, 20232 min read

A Man Named Moki

A dear friend lost her husband this week, and so many of us grieve with her, as this extraordinary human being at the center both her and...

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Don Rearden

May 1, 20231 min read

So Long, April

then in came the winds screaming down the mountain the giant hemlock shaking angry as us all that the end of April feels like the end of...

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Don Rearden

Apr 30, 20231 min read

Morning Coffee

I didn't drink coffee until after highschool that summer I took a new job at River Marina first morning on the job Pat Jennings, my new...

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Don Rearden

Apr 28, 20231 min read

Sometimes Spring

sometimes spring forgets pauses along the route north and winter lingers [April 28th, 2023 -- poem #28 for National Poetry Month-- woke...

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Don Rearden

Apr 28, 20232 min read

A Part Neanderthal’s Declaration on Gender and More

I'm more Neanderthal than the rest of you Homo sapiens so perhaps this provides me a little space to weigh in on all this outrage and...

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Don Rearden

Apr 27, 20231 min read

New Form Alert! Poo Poetry Alert!

Sometimes writers are credited with creating a new poetic form. I thought I invented the Haipoo, and of course someone already beat me to...

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Don Rearden

Apr 26, 20231 min read

The Weight of Waiting

waiting comes with a certain heaviness, an anxiety seconds tick as hours one day, a year a week, a decade months millienia the import of...

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Don Rearden

Apr 25, 20231 min read

Giant Chicken

a giant chicken flew into this cuckoo's nest a prank for my sister from our dad, delivered by air a cousin packing it thru TSA Montana to...

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Don Rearden

Apr 24, 20231 min read

Caution: Restoring Ruins

at Dzibilchaltún edge of the jungle away from the sun stricken pilgrims with their warm water bottles and selfie sticks and wide brimmed...

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Don Rearden

Apr 23, 20231 min read

Into the Attic

let's be clear I am not a fan of the attic it's not the spiders or cramped quarters darkness no issue either but spiders lurk in the mind...

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Don Rearden

Apr 22, 20231 min read

Sun Back

I wish I could hold the words to express this one thing the way, when the sun returns to this land delivers with life such a flood...

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Don Rearden

Apr 21, 20231 min read

Get Out

I insist strange things today for you a student in my course I say get out! I point towards the exit go hunt, I insist for signs of life...

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Don Rearden

Apr 19, 20231 min read

Revolutionary War

(Began in this day April 19, 1775) Our first we call the revolutionary war, so we could make each battle that followed special and just...

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Don Rearden

Apr 19, 20231 min read

A Visit From Beyond

two nights ago in my sleep a friend came to visit bringing me from the place beyond bestowing such a gift and normally I control my...

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Don Rearden

Apr 18, 20231 min read

Another Empty Jersey

I'm haunted by village gyms gone dark, the echo of a bouncing ball a tournament of teams empty jerseys floating whispers of invisible...

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Don Rearden

Apr 17, 20231 min read

Home Demolition

It all starts with children the home destruction spills, dents, cracks they wreck with the precision of a professional demolitionist but...

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Don Rearden

Apr 15, 20231 min read

Make Today Titanic

we've all been on our own Titanic felt something wasn't right but bought the ticket anyway is it easier to sink into the abyss or fight...

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Don Rearden

Apr 15, 20231 min read

Skulls and Roses

[here is my dear friend Roger Sparks with a board he designed for GoRuck / Street Plant. I helped him tell his story in Warrior's Creed]...

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Don Rearden

Apr 13, 20231 min read

LOOKOUT

(inspired by the novel by Christine Byl) "Lookout" lookout fires burn close lookout closer than you know lookout secrets, begin as...

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