WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

audio poem

November 19, 2008

Dreamer

https://sb.typepad.com/files/dreamer.mp3 Somebody came to my door and offered to give me a child who had been abandoned. I declined but thought of you. They say that in dreams, the house is the body. Or perhaps the psyche. A house of many rooms. But who is the child? Who is the offerer? Who the prospective parent?… Continue reading

Audio Post, Snapshot Poems 2008

audio poem, podcast, Snapshot Poem

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.

audio poem

Dreamer