WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

June 23, 2004

Snapshot 23 June 02004

fatigue

the longest day
ends pink-
skied

falling
into the dark
crevasse

whatever vehicle
brought me
here

is lost or
won’t start or
has no brakes

grey concrete
engulfing
even the foxglove

even
the budding
lily

Photos 2004, Snapshot Poems 2004

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.

Snapshot 23 June 02004

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