WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

July 2005

July 29, 2005

Friday Cat Blogging

Spike is pleased to pass on this true-to-life poem by Roger McGough, via Roger Collett on the Poetryetc list: The Cats’ Protection League Midnight. A knock at the door.Open it? Better had.Three heavy cats, mean and bad. They offer protection. I ask, ‘What for?’The Boss-cat snarls, ‘You know the score.Listen man and listen good If… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 4

Carnival of the Cats, cat, Friday Cat Blogging
July 29, 2005

Friday Squirrel Blogging

Sometimes they hide: Sometimes they pose: Sometimes they don’t: Continue reading

Critters

photograph, squirrel
July 28, 2005

The Laptop Saga

Last weekend, I made a new category, and went back and republished all my Laptop Saga posts — all in preparation for this post, which may (or may not) be the last post in the category. Brief summary: my HP laptop died you, my readers, raised money for a new one I threw in what… Continue reading

The Laptop Saga

computer, computer support, consumer complaint, First Call Computer Solutions, Hewlett Packard, HP, laptop, notebook
July 27, 2005

[Dream] Snapshot 27 July 02005

I am wearing someone else’s shoes.I stole them, but they were left rightout on the street. They are plastic pinkballet slippers, stiff as hardened leather. These shoes fit, but they are are madeof poison. Someone has neglected to fillthe aquarium; goldfish are swimming,gasping, in air. I receive a threatening note, in code. What is, or… Continue reading

Photos 2005, Snapshot Poems 2005

photograph, poem, poetry
July 26, 2005

Parking Lot

I spent some of this pleasantly warm day taking pictures in the parking lot. UPDATE: Here is the Bread Van photoset; here is the Ford Pickup photoset. Continue reading

Photos 2005

Ford, photograph, pickup, van

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

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

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.

July 2005

Friday Cat Blogging

Friday Squirrel Blogging

The Laptop Saga

[Dream] Snapshot 27 July 02005

Parking Lot