WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

August 29, 2017

HERE & THERE

HERE & THERE

I have been gifted by one of life’s surprises. A friendship of nearly a half century caught fire in June. Suddenly everything feels different, is different.

This month I traveled to Billings to be with Alan for a week. As forests burned around us, we nurtured our own.

The largest photo was taken at my house; the others were taken during my visit to him. Travel has been a rare occurance for me since becoming ill, but I anticipate more of it in my future. Adventure on every level!

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Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

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.

HERE & THERE

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