WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

October 2016

October 7, 2016

Taking It Apart (Poem-A-Day)

First they took the tonsils. Then the appendix & that extra tooth. Then they straightened my eyes & blinded me with light. Next an ovary, then the other & the uterus & the cervix. Finally the gallbladder. Then they rebuilt the knee. No knives have been at me for years, but… Continue reading

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October 5, 2016

Misplaced (Snapshot Poem)

//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js I searched everywhere for a poem today. I don’t know where I put it. In the refrigerator, where I once found my keys? Buried in the sofa cushions? It’s not under the bed. I checked. All of my pockets are empty, except for fluff and dust, one disposable… Continue reading

Poems, Snapshot Poem

photo, poem, Snapshot Poem
October 1, 2016

International Digital Scrapbooking Day (#iNDSD)

//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js For #iNDSD, another update, changes, corrections & additions, to: Resources for Digital Art Journaling & Collage | Shops: some brief reviews. Added Designer Digitals, Plain Digital Wrapper, and The Digital Press, and fixed some oversights. Continue reading

Art Journal, Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Digital Resources

#scrapbooking #artjournal #collage, Digital Resources

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.

October 2016

Taking It Apart (Poem-A-Day)

Misplaced (Snapshot Poem)

International Digital Scrapbooking Day (#iNDSD)