WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

March 2014

March 31, 2014

April: National Poetry Month 2014

I am going to attempt a poem-a-day this year, despite my previous failures. I will be participating in the PAD Challenge at Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides Blog | WritersDigest.com. I may not write a new poem/draft every day, but I hope to at least post a poem every day here at Watermark.… Continue reading

Poem-a-Day

Art, Art Journal, collage, digi, digital, National Poetry Month, Poem-A-Day Challenge, poetry
March 28, 2014

Weather

For Collage Obsession: Weather. Elements from Kim Klassen, Jen Maddock Designs, Designs by Helly, Finecrafted Designs, Lorie Davison, and Beth Rimmer. Click the image for detailed credits & larger sizes at flickr. Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

“Collage Obsession”, Art, collage, digi, digital, painting, weather
March 26, 2014

Eggs

For Take a Word Challenge – EGGS. Elements from aurelie, Beth Rimmer, Finecrafted Designs, Graphics Fairy, & Tangie Baxter. Click the image for detailed credits & larger sizes at flickr. Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

“Take A Word”, Art, bird, collage, digi, digital, eggs, hatchling, nest, spring

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 2014

April: National Poetry Month 2014

Weather

Eggs