WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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April 10, 2009

Making Bookmarks

Today’s poem. Continue reading

NaPoWriMo

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November 7, 2007

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the string has brokeni pick up the beads of my life they are dissonant discordantthere is no harmony here was there ever a pattern? some have fallen into the grate i’ll never retrieve them they are rolling down a long culvert it is dark here, unnavigablei am lost listen, the beads are rattling pick up… Continue reading

Snapshot Poems 2007

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March 19, 2006

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My 30 Day Photo Challenge Flickr Set I have company. I’m glad I have company. I’m having a great time. I’m exhausted — so posting may continue to be a bit sparse for awhile. Continue reading

30DayPhoto

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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.

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Making Bookmarks

snapshot poem 07 november 02007

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