WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

daffodil

April 24, 2006

Good Food Store daffodils

Photo by Davi K. Davi took this on our shopping trip for good food… Continue reading

Photos 2006

daffodil, photo, photograph
December 28, 2005

Interesting Photos

[Where are they? They’re gone.] Shelley and qB have both posted Flickr’s picks for their top photos, according to the mysterious interestingness formula. Here are mine: Continue reading

Flickr

cat, daffodil, moss, photograph, squirrel, stained glass, urban art
April 19, 2005

Heart of the Daffodil

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Photos 2005

daffodil, flower, photograph, raindrops

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.

daffodil

Good Food Store daffodils

Interesting Photos

Heart of the Daffodil