WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

March 29, 2012

do not grieve (poem)

take off your boots
your socks

stand on the wet ground

feel it
something waking

net the dead koi
from the pond

do not grieve

[Click the image to see credits & larger sizes at flickr.]

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Poems

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.

do not grieve (poem)

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