WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

March 2011

March 23, 2011

… and then I started doing this:

Template from Cathy Zielske. Papers from Basic Grey. Elements from Basic Grey, Anna Aspnes, and Art Journal Caravan. The poem is mine. and this: Template from Cathy Zielske. Papers from Anna Aspnes, and me. Clips & brads from Basic Grey. Elements from Anna Aspnes, Laurie Ann, Katie Pertiet, DeviantScrap, and Art Journal Caravan. Library cards… Continue reading

Art Journal Caravan, Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Poems

Art Journal, Art Journal Caravan, collage, digiscrap, digital scrapbooking, grief, letter, poem, poetry, thrive, travel
March 21, 2011

It’s time to show you …

[UPDATE: I've been asked to post the text from my Life Lessons page; I'm putting it under the cut.] … what I've been doing. While I've not been blogging. While I've not been writing. Yesterday & Today, the scrapbooking class I've been taking from Ali Edwards, is winding down. This is the last week. The… Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, small poems

“digital scrapbooking” “art journal” digiscrap

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 2011

… and then I started doing this:

It’s time to show you …