06-22-2026, 09:45 AM
> Yes, I have too many things packed in. Forced marriage, city blocks that block, dryads, and the promise of no more human toil, no work, the death of community. Too much of it is word-fed, not propelled by ideas.
I am not a sci fi writer, but so much science is fiction these days (you can approach that statement from a few angles and I mean at least two of them). But there is another theme not in this poem. Trees, wood, human use of networking. I’ve been reading about hyperrealism and it’s been sinking my brain. Inchoate is good, it describes where I am.
This last comment of yours makes me think the poem could go cool places if we begin with trees and make some kind of tree-involvement or tree-adjacency or tree-musing the launching point for the occasion
could provide a good substantive anchor
I am not a sci fi writer, but so much science is fiction these days (you can approach that statement from a few angles and I mean at least two of them). But there is another theme not in this poem. Trees, wood, human use of networking. I’ve been reading about hyperrealism and it’s been sinking my brain. Inchoate is good, it describes where I am.
This last comment of yours makes me think the poem could go cool places if we begin with trees and make some kind of tree-involvement or tree-adjacency or tree-musing the launching point for the occasion
could provide a good substantive anchor