WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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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

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April 1, 2010

Gifts from Strangers

A stranger to me found this gift from a stranger, and sent it on: Thank you, Nancy Taylor. Today begins NaPoWriMo, a month-long flurry of gifts from strangers. Perhaps I will send some on myself. Continue reading

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January 6, 2006

some are possibly haiku all are certainly small SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER ANY SEASON Twitter Poems | Micro-Poems | Twaiku Continue reading

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haiku, micropoems, micropoetry, Poems, poetry, small poems, twaiku, twitter poems

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.

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Gifts from Strangers