WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Photos 2006

October 11, 2006

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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Current Affairs, Photos 2006

breast cancer awareness month, photo, photograph
October 10, 2006

Autumn in the Garden

I’ve waited eight years for this porcelain berry to show its colors. Continue reading

garden, Photos 2006

autumn, garden, photo, photograph, porcelain berry
October 9, 2006

Summer’s End

Summer and autumn are arguing with each other; autumn is winning. There is a new public service ad on television — a cowboy rides into view, then swings off his horse and lights a cigarette. Whomp! the horse falls dead. A message rolls across the screen, something like second hand smoke is deadly. I think… Continue reading

Noticed, Personal, Photos 2006, Television
October 8, 2006

Fossil Stones?

You probably know that the Rolling Stones were in Missoula this week. At least one Montana blogger attended the concert; my next-door neighbor and I just sat on the deck and listened, watching the light show reflect off the cloud cover. She stuck with it the whole time; I came & went. The other next… Continue reading

Frivolity, Photos 2006

dinosaur, missoula, photograph, Rolling Stones
October 7, 2006

Montana Festival of the Book ~ Poetry

Saturday morning, tired but inspired from Friday’s adventures, I headed out to our newly renovated Missoula Art Museum for Montana Poetry: A Conversation, with Sandra Alcosser, Tami Haaland, Kim Anderson, Rick Newby, Beth Ferris, Arlynn Fishbaugh, Lowell Jaeger, Megan McNamer, Mandy Smoker, and Corby Skinner. I was especially looking forward to seeing Beth, a poet… Continue reading

Books, Montana Bloggers, Photos 2006, poetry, Poets, Writing

Arlynn Fishbaugh, B.J. Buckley, Beth Ferris, Corby Skinner, Kim Anderson, Lowell Jaeger, Mandy Smoker, Megan McNamer, missoula, Montana Festival of the Book, poetry, Poets, Rick Newby, Sandra Alcosser, Tami Haaland

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.

Photos 2006

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Autumn in the Garden

Summer’s End

Fossil Stones?

Montana Festival of the Book ~ Poetry