WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Clark Fork

July 18, 2005

Clark Fork River

This road is bordered by willows and quaking aspen shaking light on shallow water. Stones rest like red coins in the riverbed. I cross this river again and again, bridge after bridge. It cuts and winds through cottonwood groves and pine forests. Or is it this road that bends and turns, twisting its way along… Continue reading

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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.

Clark Fork

Clark Fork River