WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

berries

December 8, 2005

Winter & Writing

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, for it is a dangerous and a contagious disease. ~ Peter Abelard, in a letter to Heloise From PNWA Quote of the Day Continue reading

Photos 2005, Quotes

berries, photograph, quote, snow, winter, Writing
October 31, 2005

Mountain Ash

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garden, Photos 2005

autumn, autumn color, berries, fall, leaves, Mountain Ash, photograph, red, tree
November 22, 2004

Red

in the copper urn in the beaded purse in the maple, the cherry turning in the african belt in the bentwood box in the goldfish swimming the chilling pond in the persian rug in the porcelain bowl in the photo of judd dancing with scarecrows in the hopi drum… Continue reading

garden, Photos 2004, Poems

berries, Mountain Ash, photograph, poem, red

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.

berries

Winter & Writing

Mountain Ash

Red