WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

May 2014

May 1, 2014

Poem-A-Day #29 & #30

#29 Prompt: fantastical today is a day of sharp edges red roof against bright sky a fence’s iron arrows pointing to infinity nestled between the flamingo’s pink wings we flew moon still pale in the west lending its color to snow on blue mountains we were children then blond… Continue reading

NaPoWriMo, Poem-a-Day, Poems

NaPoWriMo, PAD, poem, Poem-a-Day, poetry, Poetry Month

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.

May 2014

Poem-A-Day #29 & #30