WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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September 11, 2012

On waking from a nightmare, Sept. 11, 02012

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Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

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September 11, 2006

9/11

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Current Affairs

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September 11, 2004

A Franciscan Travel Blessing

May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths and superficial relationships so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may wish for justice, freedom, and peace. May God bless you with enough foolishness to believe… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Quotes, Spirit

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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.

9-11

On waking from a nightmare, Sept. 11, 02012

9/11

A Franciscan Travel Blessing