WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

30DayPhoto

March 21, 2006

black locust

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30DayPhoto, bark, photograph, tree
March 20, 2006

Black & White Boo

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30DayPhoto, cat, photograph
March 19, 2006

beads

My 30 Day Photo Challenge Flickr Set I have company. I’m glad I have company. I’m having a great time. I’m exhausted — so posting may continue to be a bit sparse for awhile. Continue reading

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beads, photograph
March 18, 2006

Davi & Henry

My 30 Day Photo Challenge Flickr Set I’m planning to write a post about this — later. But I wanted to post a photo of the day, and this is my favorite, so here it is, without its narrative. Continue reading

30DayPhoto, Family

dog, photograph, woman
March 17, 2006

grafitti: anyone know what this means?

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bench, grafitti, photograph

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.

30DayPhoto

black locust

Black & White Boo

beads

Davi & Henry

grafitti: anyone know what this means?