Author name: Dan Swanson

I like to hope my final thought Won’t be about the stuff I’ve bought Or jokes I’ve made or clothes […]

My poems are composed in pursuit of a vision where rhymes are combined with harmonic precision for life is too

If the internet broke from a glitch or a curse, I’m no longer sure that our lives would be worse.

An editor’s a predator to all our perfect prose, but sometimes change helps best arrange the sterling words we chose.

I’d rather have a puppy than a narwhal. A narwhal cannot curl up near your knees. It’s hard to go

It shouldn’t be a source of shame to own mistakes and shoulder blame. We earn respect in others’ eyes by

I’m proud that every poem I’ve penned was A.I.-free from start to end. Each time I’ve rhymed, the words I’ve

The best defense against regret is working hard for what you get.

There’s a bunch of rich folks who we see in the news who want A.I. to win and, thus, H.I.

I can amble, I can strut, I can stroll like I don’t care, but I’ve learned what really matters isn’t