WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Photos 2006

October 6, 2006

Montana Festival of the Book

My encounter with Camille, the Clark City Press baby, was unquestionably the most delightful of this particular conference . . . . . . but she did have competition. Well, not precisely. Other encounters were pleasant, thought-provoking, informative, and fun — but Camille would be pretty much unmatched in the delight category. On Friday morning… Continue reading

Books, Montana Bloggers, Photos 2006, Writing

Annick Smith, Claire Davis, Clark City Press, Curly Bear Wagner, Dorothy Patent, Mary Clearman Blew, Mary Scriver, Montana Festival of the Book, photograph, Vic Charlo
October 4, 2006

Snapshot Poem 04 October 02006

The pond is filling with leaves, curled and tattered and gold. Wind shakes the gilding from birch trees; this neighborhood whispers with gossip of autumn. The news tells me my government lies. I mourn my lack of astonishment, seek comfort in Mozart and Bach. No consolation for me in illusions of faith and religion. These… Continue reading

Photos 2006, Snapshot Poems 2006

mountain ash tree, photograph, poem, poetry, Snapshot Poem
October 1, 2006

Higgins Avenue, Missoula, Montana

I’ve been out & about. Every day, for three days. I’m exhausted. All you get is a photo. Continue reading

Photos 2006

Missoula Montana, photo, photograph
September 27, 2006

Snapshot Poem 27 September 02006

this morning smells of cinnamon, of nutmeg and nostalgia, the red sting of striped wasps and afternoon falling from the sky like maple like oak, a yellow day, tasting of lemons and the sharp songs of sparrows, a round day, an oval day, an egg day, the day takes shape around me but i am… Continue reading

Photos 2006, Snapshot Poems 2006

photograph, poem, poetry, Snapshot Poem, wasp
September 25, 2006

DayPix ~ Equinox 2006

I realize that Watermark has been a bit heavy on photography lately, and light on words — and now there are even more pictures. Brainstorms, an online community I visit now and then, does an occasional project called DayPix, in which interested snapshotters are invited to record three days photographically. I did this over the… Continue reading

DayPix, Photos 2006

brainstorms, DayPix, fd’s flickr toys, flickr. tabblo, photofront, photograph, photography, photos, selfportrait, zooomr

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

Montana Festival of the Book

Snapshot Poem 04 October 02006

Higgins Avenue, Missoula, Montana

Snapshot Poem 27 September 02006

DayPix ~ Equinox 2006