WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

April 2009

April 18, 2009

NaPoWriMo

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April 17, 2009

a poem from a friend, for a friend

For Stacie DeWolfRemembering April 17, 2007 Witnesses said that you flew.Flew.Fifteen feet in the air.I meditate on thisand see your spirit going on from your bodyinto the spring sky,with all your hopes of sun and warmth.Your spirit went on.Your body fell,and you did not.You, capable of flying, entered the next. poem & photo by ~~… Continue reading

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April 16, 2009

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April 15, 2009

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April 14, 2009

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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.

April 2009

NaPoWriMo

a poem from a friend, for a friend

NaPoWriMo

NaPoWriMo

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