WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

April 2009

April 10, 2009

Making Bookmarks

Today’s poem. Continue reading

NaPoWriMo

beads, NaPoWriMo, photo, poem
April 9, 2009

NaPoWriMo

Today's poem. Continue reading

NaPoWriMo

NaPoWriMo, poem
April 8, 2009

NaPoWriMo

Today's poem. Continue reading

NaPoWriMo

haiku, NaPoWriMo, poem
April 7, 2009

Kitten

kitten in the morning kitten in the evening kitten | all day long little kitten claws little kitten teeth pitter-patter feet kitten | all day long kitten in the morning kitten in the evening kitten | all day long sharp kitten claws sharp kitten teeth pound-pound feet kitten | all night long ______________ What can… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 2009, NaPoWriMo

cat blogging, catblogging, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, poem
April 6, 2009

2009-04-06 this moment free-write [slightly edited]

maybe something will come if i just start typingof course, immediately i want a smoke and feel the tiredness of body & mind if i don't have more than ten notes in an afternooni feel all smudgy and inadequate now i remember an email to be answered a phone call to return, anything but the… Continue reading

NaPoWriMo

NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, poem

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

Making Bookmarks

NaPoWriMo

NaPoWriMo

Kitten

2009-04-06 this moment free-write [slightly edited]