WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

March 2010

March 17, 2010

Snapshot 17 March 02010

This room, its comforts, soft sheets, firm bed, the white noise machine pretending to be the sea — one dog curled at your feet, the other twitching with her own nightmares on her own bed — ceiling fan casting dust & air on the Asian silk carpet. The bed clothes are obstreperous. They wrinkle &… Continue reading

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dream poem, poem, Snapshot Poem
March 3, 2010

2010 03 march snapshot poem

if i were to tell youeverythingbare twisted branchesagainst a graying sky if i were to tell youdreams thickwith familiar strangersone of them always you a few birch leavescling yellow to the tree an empty red mailbox a white black-tailed cat the dog coughing pawing at her mouth her enlarged heart still beating this to say… Continue reading

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poem, Snapshot 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.

March 2010

Snapshot 17 March 02010

2010 03 march snapshot poem