WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

bear

December 27, 2011

no matter how harmless …

no matter how | harmless it seems | do not feed the bear [Comments closed. For some reason this post is a spam-magnet.] Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

Art, Art Journal Caravan, bear, collage, digi, digiscrap, digital, journal
April 28, 2011

don’t do this

My grandmother was a young mother when she took this photo. She was quite proud of it for awhile, then realized the possible consequences and hid it in a drawer. Because I’m innocent (of this, anyway) I get to hang it on my wall and enjoy it… PostScript: how much should we risk for… Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

bear, digi, digiscrap, digital scrapbooking

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.

bear

no matter how harmless …

don’t do this