WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

February 2012

February 11, 2012

. . . I have put my heart . . .

"I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart." Pope John XXIII Click the image to see credits & larger sizes at flickr. Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Poems

Art, collage, digi, digital, eyes, heart
February 8, 2012

Hearts & Eggs

In the third night of heart-attack dreams(hearts cracking in the shell of the body) I get out of my bed and watch the palecracked egg of the moon. I picture you at your desk in the prison, holding thispoem in one hand, reading. You reach out the other, spread wide like a fan,… Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Poems

Art, collage, digi, digital, journal, poem
February 5, 2012

abstracts

For credits and larger sizes, click the image to see at flickr. Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

abstract, Art, clandestine, collage, digi, digital, journal

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.

February 2012

. . . I have put my heart . . .

Hearts & Eggs

abstracts