WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

02004 SOLSTICE LETTER – IV

January 4, 2004

02004 Solstice Letter IV

August After a time, pain becomes defining, it becomes who you are: I am exhaustion. I am pain. One examines the philosophy, the sociology, the spiritual dimensions of pain. One attempts to escape it, tame it, defy it, deify it. Anything. Trying to retrieve dreams is like chasing bubbles; the moment you grasp them, they… Continue reading

02004 SOLSTICE LETTER – IV

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.

02004 SOLSTICE LETTER – IV

02004 Solstice Letter IV