WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Domestic

July 18, 2010

Parking Lot

If you leave the asphalt, what you have is dust and heat. Lever it out. Add soil, seed and water. Now you have buds, bugs, and birds. Squirrels, field mice, worms, slugs. Shade, and shadows that shiver with breeze. Finches, sparrows, juncos, chickadees, nuthatches. Crows, cats and kestrels. If your life has been stilled, or… Continue reading

@ Home, Domestic

garden
May 29, 2007

Home Decorating Trends I Don’t Get

So what do I do when I’m not writing, blogging, or reading anything that requires more than a modicum of attention? While unwatched Charlie Rose episodes pile up on the DVR, I watch decorating and design programs on HGTV, and peruse shelter magazines passed on by a neighbor. Occasionally I get up and do a… Continue reading

Domestic

@ Home, decorating, Domestic, interior design, trendy

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.

Domestic

Parking Lot

Home Decorating Trends I Don’t Get