WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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June 3, 2006

Goals, Intentions, Disappointments

9rules announced the sites they’ve accepted into their network this morning, and Watermark is not on the list — but two sites that I read are: Real Live Preacher and John Baker. Oddly, the sites on the list are not clickable — so I’ll probably wait until they are before exploring. I’ve been thinking lately… Continue reading

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DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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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Goals, Intentions, Disappointments