WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

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July 22, 2009

Animal Empathy ~ The Empathy Animal

Animal Empathy an animal antiphon assimilated aborigines we are Antaeus earth our arboretum it is not a matter of thinking it begins here: we band together, a braid of betrothal and betrayal the human biography curators of creation we cannot continue to consume without consequence sinking deep into demise we must listen, we must… Continue reading

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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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Animal Empathy ~ The Empathy Animal