WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

chronic illness

May 12, 2004

International ME/CFS/Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

May 12 is International ME/ CFS/ Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. The day was chosen to commemorate the birthday of Florence Nightingale. Resources and information: The National Fibromyalgia Association The CFIDS Association of America WebMD Fibromyalgia/CFIDS Health Center Chronic illness has been my enemy for several years. Now I am trying to make friends with it. The… Continue reading

Current Affairs, illness, Personal, Poems

“chronic fatigue”, chronic illness, fibromyalgia, poetry

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, 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.

chronic illness

International ME/CFS/Fibromyalgia Awareness Day