WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

September 26, 2007

Snapshot 26 September 2007

The dogs bark
at intruders.
Which anyone is.

A goldfinch sings
on the other side
of the window.

I open the shutters,
close them. Is there
another side

to this wall?
I am uninhabited.
Come in.

Thank you, Andrew and Kasper, for help with revision.

Snapshot Poems 2007

2 responses to “Snapshot 26 September 2007”

Dick

September 30, 2007 at 12:15 am

I loved this, Sharon. Such economy but much said.

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SB

October 1, 2007 at 12:40 pm

Thanks, Dick.
The economy in this case is largely due to my helpful readers…

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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.

Snapshot 26 September 2007

2 responses to “Snapshot 26 September 2007”

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