WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

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Carnival of the Dogs

May 28, 2005

Comfort

Karen suggested that we use Friday Cat Blogging this weekend to remember our lost companions; an excellent idea, that I had planned to use. But, the computer problems just make it too difficult — so instead, this favorite photo of Henry and Spike, already on Flickr, that makes me think: comfort. And comfort is what… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 4, Personal, The Laptop Saga

Carnival of the Cats, Carnival of the Dogs, cat, dog, Friday Ark, Friday Cat Blogging, photograph
May 13, 2005

Henry

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Critters

Carnival of the Dogs, dog, dogs, Friday Dog Blogging, photograph

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.

Carnival of the Dogs

Comfort

Henry