WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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January 6, 2005

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This site has been seriously neglected, as my focus has been on the others. I am reminded by recent comments, though, that there is potential usefulness in this little blog, so I’ve vowed to get back to it. Soon, posts on what I’ve been learning the past few months, for other learners. Also, note the… Continue reading

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May 23, 2004

Learning Curve

This is my learning blog. Here I will try out new skills, so the look of this space will be constantly changing. I’ve learned a lot doing , and now I want to expand my skills without messing it up. My goals are to learn CSS; learn how to make drop-down boxes for archives; and… Continue reading

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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.

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