Recapitulation / Bee

RECAPITULATION An air of long summer twilights.Nancy soft and dreamy as a G. Nancy with fence.Nancy without fence.Nancy. Caught in the uproar of long kites,singular enough for a childhood. And the snowberriesstill hulking in their rosy blush,between groin bust and clipped almonds. Nancy swimbed of marzipan.Nancy with fence.Nancy without fence.Nancy. * Bee She would have…

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Chat GPT as a poetry critic (3)

What preceded: I fed Chat GPT some poems and found that it analyses poems as only the best Dutch critics could. That’s not saying much, because the level of Dutch criticism is pitifully low. But then a thought dawned on me: what if this machine not only knows how to interpret my poems flawlessly but…

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