WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

April 2, 2004

Soul Food

Inspired by Sugarfused&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp

1. Silence
2. Solitude
3. Moving water
4. Mashed potatoes made with butter, cream, and nutmeg
5. Still water, with moon
6. Poems
7. Garden lilies
8. Nina Simone, Jane Siberry, Bach
9. Whale watching
10. Rain
11. Inuit art
12. Work
13. Great-grandmother’s buttermilk pie
(tattered recipe below; click for larger image)
14. Postcards from friends
15. Purring cats
16. Backyard birds
17. Blue heron on the riverbank
18. Loved voice on the telephone
19. Slow dancing
20. Fog
21. Swimming
22. Being still (to see what is moving)
23. Being still (to hear what is speaking)
24. Bittersweet chocolate
25. Dreams

&nbsp&nbsp(I suggest cutting the sugar by 1/3 to 1/2)

Soul Food

3 responses to “Soul Food”

deb

April 2, 2004 at 1:18 pm

My grandmother always made a buttermilk pie for Sunday dinner. She lived in Kentucky until her death at the age of 96. My mother has tried for 40 years to make that buttermilk pie taste like granny’s and hasn’t been successful yet lol.
Appreciate the link back, and I’m in love with your site. Your poetry is lovely, and I was especially touch by your soltice letter 🙂

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SB

April 2, 2004 at 6:05 pm

thank you *

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Anita

April 3, 2004 at 4:27 pm

What a wonderful list. And good inspiration — since I like to create, and read, lists.

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Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Soul Food

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