WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

June 2020

June 25, 2020

Illness – Coping | Art journal pages that, at the time or in retrospect, deal with my feelings and experiences with chronic illness.

Looking for something else, I found this photo-set that I made long ago at flickr. I'd forgotten how often I made art journal pages about my illness, and my attempts to cope with it. Perhaps it will speak to someone else: (This isn't working as a slide show, not sure why. Will research… Continue reading

digital art journaling

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.

June 2020

Illness – Coping | Art journal pages that, at the time or in retrospect, deal with my feelings and experiences with chronic illness.