WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Arni Ibsen

November 18, 2004

Good News

Árni is awake. We are told: He’s terribly tired – even opening his eyes is a major effort. He seems to have control of hands and legs, no apparent paralysis in his face, and he clearly understands what’s going on. — and who is to say that all those candles did not help? He will… Continue reading

Poets

Arni Ibsen, Buddha, photograph, rose
November 4, 2004

Snapshot 03 November 02004For Árni Ibsen

I wake to a cold, grey morning and election news I do not like. You would not like it, either, but you do not hear it. The ash tree is filled with waxwings, red berries scattered on the ground. Here, winter approaches; there, where you are, it is a different season, in that mysterious land… Continue reading

Snapshot Poems 2004

Arni Ibsen, poem, poetry, Snapshot Poem
November 3, 2004

Life

This morning, along with other distressing news, I hear that Árni Ibsen, a steady light on the PoetryEtc list, collapsed with a brain hemorrhage on Tuesday. It is a cold, grey morning. And it is filled with waxwings. Continue reading

Personal, Poets

Arni Ibsen, poet

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.

Arni Ibsen

Good News

Snapshot 03 November 02004For Árni Ibsen

Life