WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

cow

December 18, 2005

Sunday in Montana

Photo by [cousin] Sue Pinkerton My garden has been filled with drunken waxwings. After two window collisions (at slow speed) I pulled the lace curtains — and then one banged right into the shingled wall. They are gorging on fermented berries from the mountain ash. I’m gorging a bit myself, on the company of a… Continue reading

Critters, Personal

Angus, cattle, cow, friendship, frost, photograph
October 28, 2005

Bringing the Cows Home

Friday Cat Blogging will occur later today, or possibly it will be Saturday Cat Blogging; today you get cows. And on Sunday, here at Watermark, will be The Halloween Edition of The Carnival of the Cats! Send in your entry via the Carnival Submission Form (my preference) or email to submissions (at) carnivalofthecats.com. Now from… Continue reading

Critters, Family, Montana Bloggers

Carnival of the Cats, cattle, cattle drive, cow, cowpoke, horse, Montana, photograph, ranch, ranching

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.

cow

Sunday in Montana

Bringing the Cows Home