This first notebook comes from when I was just starting grad school somewhere around 2014-2015. The notes are fairly quick, one-off’s mostly. I guess I was pretty busy with school, my assistantship and keeping track of writing in Word docs and loose leaf computer paper (a new practice for me at that time).
Reading through the notebook, I noticed a handful of deeply involved sentences, haiku almost, mixed in with partially lists, odd and unlabeled schedule things, and grad student assessments of too-big topics.
Here are the highlights:
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A hawk crosses at a low point in the road.
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Evoking the name is not the name.
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Duck calls to shore / two leaves fall
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Our lang. will be out done, it will become inadequate for our purposes.
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Why else would you invent the light bulb?
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Devil’s Eye for protection.
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I just figured out how to flirt: The Warm Shoulder
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Chatty group tonight. It’s like a fruit salad.
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Where is Cyrano? Where is the poet of the moment?
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J.H., the Greek novelist, could probably tell you the meaning of the word, if it’s Greek.
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“If we only tell the truth to tell the facts, the poems are missing something.”
-Sh.
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Can you tell a good story / Can you sing a good song? / Can you tell me please, my darling / Oh, will it be long?
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pending
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When the fool fools himself
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The only way to write is to let go of the language matrix prescribed for purposes—statements, questions, exclamations, etc.
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dizzy flaunting like cigarettes / won’t cost much // I’m a young man / and I’m still in hell
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aufgemacht
aufgemacht
aufgemacht
aufgemacht
aufgemacht
aufgemacht
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Dan Dorman 
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