WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Day of the Dead

November 2, 2008

Day of the Dead

I try to count my dead and their gifts, but there are too many. The garden is buried in leaves. Continue reading

NaBloPoMo ’08, Poems

crow, Day of the Dead, NaBloPoMo, photograph, poem

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.