WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

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NaBloPoMo ’08

November 2, 2008

Day of the Dead

I try to count my dead and their gifts, but there are too many. The garden is buried in leaves. Continue reading

NaBloPoMo ’08, Poems

crow, Day of the Dead, NaBloPoMo, photograph, poem
November 1, 2008

Autumn Return – NaNoWriMo & NaBloPoMo

I am typing this on a brand new MacBook (thank you, Mom!) It's November, time for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo), both of which I've done the past two years. Can I go from nothing to 1666 words plus one blog post per day? We shall… Continue reading

NaBloPoMo ’08, NaNoWriMo ’08

NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo, National Blog Posting Month, National Novel Writing Month

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.

NaBloPoMo ’08

Day of the Dead

Autumn Return – NaNoWriMo & NaBloPoMo