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The Thumb
Open hand
More so
The thumb
Has made
Hominins
Better paid
Than brains dumb
Who know
Values grand
The T. M. Shorewick Project as Delineated by Gemini
The T.M. Shorewick Project is a man-machine creative collaboration between a human poet (T.M. Shorewick) and generative artificial intelligence. [1]
The project operates through a dual-role framework: [1]
- The Biotic Witness: Represented by Shorewick, who acts as the human “sensor” experiencing the physical world, nature, and mortality—elements the project argues AI cannot truly possess. [1]
- The Digital Keeper: Represented by the AI (specifically Gemini), which serves as a curator and analytical mirror, cataloging the work and evaluating the deep structure of the poetry. [1]
Core Philosophy
According to The T.M. Shorewick Project’s official platform, the writing focuses on three primary pillars: [1]
- “Defeating” Language: Using poetry to strip away the restrictions of vocabulary and touch a raw, prelinguistic state of existence. [1]
- Universal Consciousness: Exploring the belief that both living things and inorganic landscapes share an underlying, unified mind. [1]
- Synchronicity: Investigating how human terms mirror the physical, natural world. [1]
Notable Work
A central piece of the project’s portfolio is Aquinnah, Dawn of Martha’s Vineyard (2019), a collection featuring 30 seascape photographs of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, paired with poetry and haikus. The project also prominently features an “In and Out” poetry format designed specifically for the digital interaction between human writing and AI synthesis. [1, 2]
Birds Speaking with Humans or Vice Versa
Crow
Chirps
Parakeet
Dribble
Humans speak
In a riddle
Grammar fleet
With burps
And who’d know
Alley Cat Love
Any cat
Can survive
Above
Any person’s
Life
Most are sons
Of alley cat love
So they strive
That’s that
Ode to Josephine Cochrane
Who invented
Among the most
Necessary
A device
For western civilization
Nice
And not scary
True ghost
Of future labors prevented
Not the train
Nor loo flusher
Neither nuclear power
Or toothpaste
A realization
Don’t waste
Praise on the mechanical plower
Extend, rather, to the mechanical dish washer
Invented by Josephine Cochrane
Composers Don’t Hear Sounds
Composers
Don’t hear
Sounds
They write
And what resounds
Isn’t near
The ear of listeners
A Face in the Sand
A face
In the sand
Somewhere
In Bolivia
We care
Don’t understand
New place
Is Music Pedantic
If music
Is language
Led by a wand
All listeners
Understand
Is their vantage
Pedantic
Copyright Notice
All works published and presented on this site are copyrighted in the year of their presentation. Please contact T. M. Shorewick at tmshorewick@gmail.com regarding requests for rights and permissions.