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This website includes several sections at this point, and I keep adding more and more stuff, so the top banner here leads to a number of different starting points. At present, September, 2009, there’s Carl Miller Poems, Cloudmonet fanfictions, and a new feature this year, the Molly Blue comic strip. Within each section, the “previous” and “next” links in the banner will guide you through the material, and each section has at least one navigation page.

Most but not all of my poems are about things I’ve personally experienced, and arranged, not in the order I wrote the poems, but in the order the poems actually happened. Poems about historical figures are placed at whatever time I began writing them. I partially redecorated this area a few months ago, enlarging the font and adding illustrations. Because there are hundreds of poems here, there’s a table of contents and an alphabetized title index.

About the Author

These mundane facts may help you identify me, if you’re not sure which one of many possible Carl Millers I might be. I was born on Beethovan’s birthday, December 16, 1949, in Cleveland Ohio. I went to Memphis Elementary, Wilbur Wright Junior High, James Ford Rhodes High, and Case Western Reserve University, where I majored in biology, studied geology, and began writing poems. I've drawn comics since I was eleven.

In 1972 I moved to Marin County, California, where I was associated with the Family Mix in San Anselmo, which in my time functioned mostly as an informal school of art, ceramics, and astrology. In 1974 I moved to Humboldt County, first Redway, then Briceland. My comic, Jane Doe, appeared for two years in a local alternative paper, Star Root. I’ve written three dragon novels, The Warrior and the Witch, The Goblin Plain War, and Dragonbound, which were published by Ace Science Fiction in the early 1990’s and presently out of print. Last time I looked, these were available used from various online book dealers.

I am also the online artist and fanfiction author, cloudmonet.

About the Site

Designed and coded by Carl Miller. All contents copyright © 1970 - 2009 Carl Miller. Some poems have been previously published in various little magazines between 1971 and 1984. Some were included in the Garberville Anthology and Lost Coast: Poems and Stories from Humboldt County, California, both co-edited by me. Some have appeared in self-printed chapbooks.

In January through April, 2005, I posted 79 pages of poems here, about 500 of them, describing events in my life, as well as moments from the lives of artists, scientists, and lighthouse keepers. A few poems have been added since then. February, 2009, I added page 80. July 2009, I added new poems on pages 41, 76, and 80, and a new page, 81. September 2009, I added more new poems to page 80, and split it in half, so the old page 81 with the Mount Whitney poems is now page 82, and I've added pages 83-85. These pages will probably get more poems later; I’m unsure how many or about what. My present life has unresolved plotlines, but I’m slowly figuring out how to write about the recent past. It helps that I’ve once again found poetry readings to join.

Recently, I’ve been adding pen drawings and paintings connected in one way or another to the poems, such as the “Home in Cleveland” drawing on this page. All of these are my own work.

I’ve recently moved poems from page to page so that page breaks coincide with year breaks, and while I’m at it, putting page breaks between home poems and travel poems when this seems appropriate. I tried to do it in such a way that most poems remain on the page they were on before, but some internal links from external sites may have been broken. Whatever the poem is, it’s probably still here, and on the page before or after the one it was on before.

The Cloudmonet fanfiction section got created in the summer of 2006, at the request of some internet friends.

The Molly Blue comic section is brand-new here in February, 2009, though I’ve been drawing this since September, 2007. Molly Blue is an adventure / comedy / romance set on a tropical island, with demons, frogmen, and big lizards, among other exotic curiosities. It’s presently (September, 2009) getting updated about 3 or 4 times a month.

Fair Use Rules

Now for the rules. I don’t mind you printing out copies of my poems for your own use. I recommend copying and pasting to a word processor. You can make them look better that way. Please include my name as author on anything you print. As for commercial use, i.e. any sort of sales, that’s my job, and you’re not allowed to do it. Why would you want to try? Money? Poetry? I know from experience that it’s impossible to sell enough copies to pay for the printing.

As for the fanfictions, the characters belong to Disney, so the stories can't be bought or sold at all, not even by me!

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