WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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September 3, 2012

Oxymoron: Chronic Fatigue Activist

For Art Journal Caravan w/Tangie Baxter: Itinerary #34 {Wordography: Oxymoron} [Click the image to see credits & larger sizes at flickr.] Continue reading

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July 9, 2012

Game of Life

For Art Journal Caravan w/Tangie Baxter – Adventure Quest in Cartography #07 July: Game of Life [Click the image to see credits & larger sizes at flickr.] Continue reading

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June 19, 2012

Only Today

some days i wonder can i live like this another twenty years? then i remember there is only today [Click the image to see credits & larger sizes at flickr.] Continue reading

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June 14, 2012

pain braid

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April 9, 2012

conundrum

For Art Journal Caravan w/Tangie Baxter: Itinerary #13 {Wordography: Conundrum} This word had me stumped (ha!) for quite awhile. Then I considered the main conundrum of my own life; the need to balance my inherent introversion, which is much exacerbated by illness, with the need for human connection. I'm either exhausted, or isolated.… Continue reading

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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.

digital art journaling

Oxymoron: Chronic Fatigue Activist

Game of Life

Only Today

pain braid

conundrum