WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

courage

May 23, 2006

Lucy’s Monsters

Lucy knows there is a monster in the oven, because she sees it, every time she passes that black glass door. Actually, there are far too many monsters in Lucy’s world. There’s the one in the basement; the one at the corner of the neighbor’s deck; the one under the manhole cover in the courtyard;… Continue reading

Critters

comic, courage, dog, monster
January 19, 2005

Create

Rollo May, The Courage to Create . . . the creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. . . . transcending can occur only to those who accept the fact of their limitation . . . Form is not a mere lopping off of meaning… Continue reading

Quotes, Writing

Art, artist, courage, creativity, poet, poetry, Writing

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.

courage

Lucy’s Monsters

Create