WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

anger

January 25, 2012

An Anger Rant . . .

. . . from Nevermore, who posted this in the Art Journal Caravan gallery: "Warning: TMI Rant. For the first time since Joe's terminal illness was diagnosed, I am angry. With everyone, including Joe. Yes, even Max is making me mad right now. "We are currently undergoing a series of stages that are… Continue reading

Friends & Family

anger, chronic illness, dying, Family, friends, helpers, how not to help, how to help, support, terminal illness
March 5, 2005

Evasion

On my morning walk, a young couple asks me where is ***? and I point and hear myself say y’ur look’n attit — and who would guess that this fat, slow woman, with her ungroomed dogs and wild hair, comes home to write elegant poems? I have been feeling — evasive — (this is not… Continue reading

Personal, Photos 2005

anger, feminism, grief, rage, women
May 29, 2004

Rage Monster

This was drawn nearly 20 years ago, but is suitable for today. I seem to be riding emotional waves lately. Relationships can be so . . . difficult. Anger, especially, with all its relatives: judgement, self-pity, despair. But also, sometimes: clarity, resolution, action. Always that fear, though, that it will overcome me; overwhelm others —… Continue reading

Personal

anger, drawing, rage

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.

anger

An Anger Rant . . .

Evasion

Rage Monster