WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Disability Issues

June 8, 2016

Coping with Illness

Coming back online after a long absence, a friend reminds me to pay attention to this blog as well as Watermark. I notice that my last post here was an art journal page, and decide I can just do that for awhile, post pages every few days. I went to flickr to see what I… Continue reading

digital art journaling, Disability Issues
November 6, 2007

Suffering and Honor

When I heard about this death, I felt anger, and despair. I never liked marijuana (control freak, I’m told) so in that sense this is not personal. But I know that many folks with fibromyalgia find relief with this drug. I know that, compared to other legal, prescription or ‘recreational’ drugs, this is a relatively… Continue reading

Disability Issues

fibromyalgia, lupus, medical marijuana, robin prosser
October 27, 2004

Disability Testing

Look What the Cat Dragged In has a great post up today: Why Disability Testing for FMS is Often Misleading: Advice for FMS/CFS Patients and their Disability Team. Lots of good information for those in the process of diagnosis/ disability application. Continue reading

Disability Issues

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe 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.

Disability Issues

Coping with Illness

Suffering and Honor

Disability Testing