WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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April 7, 2006

Montana Cats

This is the Catster Montana Cats angel, courtesy of Miss Muppet, with the assistance of wingman Uncle Brent. Cousin Sue’s Montana cat PeeWee (AKA Bibs) recently discovered that, angelic or not, she doesn’t actually have wings: Photos by Sue Pinkerton ~ click images to embiggen Yep, she fell out of the tree. You… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 7

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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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Montana Cats