WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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February 3, 2008

Make the Woman

Let me put on this blazer with brooch, pull back my hair into a tightknot. There. Will that do? Perhaps you’d prefer this red silk dress bare legs and spiked heels or this flowery innocent shirtwaist? No? This straplesstube, then you can see the ring in my navel. Pull. You long for leather and high… Continue reading

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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.

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Make the Woman