WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Arkansas River

February 25, 2005

Christo

First one must find a concept large enough to contain the entire city: Saffron, perhaps, or Gate. The horse pulls its head into its neck, making its body an S below the gibbous moon. Cover the river in grey silk. Let the building reinvent itself in soft satin curves. Owls resent this… 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.

Arkansas River

Christo