WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

October 10, 2016

What’s Coming (Poem-A-Day)

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What's Coming

Winter is coming, whether we are here to see it, or not.

Seven different species of bees on the endangered species list.

Elections are coming, if we are still here to vote.

Then spring, summer, fall. Change is coming.

It can happen here.

We may complain of the heat, the cold, the fall into incivility, in which we, of course, play no part.

It’s just words.

What matters? These sparrows, fluttering in the ash tree. Frost on the last tomato.

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Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art 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.

What’s Coming (Poem-A-Day)

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