WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

bird

March 18, 2005

Bookends

Blue & his buddy Spike & Boo Henry & Lucy This week’s Carnival of the Cats; Carnival of the Dogs; Friday Ark.[click photos for larger image] Continue reading

Critters, Friday Cat Blogging 3

bird, budgie, cat, cats, dog, dogs, Friday Cat Blogging, parakeet
March 12, 2005

crow

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Haiga, Poems, small poems

bird, blackbird, crow, Haiga, haiku, poem, poetry
February 16, 2005

Snapshot 16 February 02005

Blue Sky Day In which Blue, Blue budgie, little Blue God, Blue bird of Happiness Continue reading

Critters, Photos 2005, Snapshot Poems 2005

bird, parakeet, photograph, poem, poetry
January 18, 2005

Life & Death in the Garden

flickr Visual Story Telling group Continue reading

Critters, garden

bird, garden, hawk, hunt, photograph, sparrow, winter
November 16, 2004

Kingfisher

Beautiful kingfisher. I do not have the skill to capture the ones I see on film, but thankfully Sensitive Light does (click for orginal, larger image.) This morning I was greeted by two of these, one noisy magpie, and hundreds of waxwings. A lightness from yesterday, when this suited my mood: Thoreau’s Journal: 13-Nov-1851 … Continue reading

Critters, Quotes

bird, kingfisher, photograph

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.

bird

Bookends

crow

Snapshot 16 February 02005

Life & Death in the Garden

Kingfisher