WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

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January 2017

January 2, 2017

Beau Cat, Boy Cat, Bad Cat Hereby Resolves:

//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js When a door is closed, I shall not scratch, pound, pull, push, yowl. I shall sit politely and await arrival of The Servant. I shall clean myself thoroughly, especially my glorious paws, before exploring the kitchen counters. I shall restrain myself when head-bumping; The Servant is a fragile beast. When pinning It… Continue reading

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January 2, 2017

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A new year, a time for resolutions. Resolutions like: I shall post on my blog regularly again. I'm not doing resolutions, but I am doing maybe intentions. Among those, of course, is: I might post on my blog regularly again. Also, I'm maybe doing The Daily Poet: The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your… Continue reading

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DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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.

January 2017

Beau Cat, Boy Cat, Bad Cat Hereby Resolves:

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