WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

DayPix

September 25, 2006

DayPix ~ Equinox 2006

I realize that Watermark has been a bit heavy on photography lately, and light on words — and now there are even more pictures. Brainstorms, an online community I visit now and then, does an occasional project called DayPix, in which interested snapshotters are invited to record three days photographically. I did this over the… Continue reading

DayPix, Photos 2006

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February 4, 2006

Daypix 2006

As a member of Brainstorms, I participated in this year’s Daypix, an annual event in which interested photographers are asked to record their day photographically, starting early the day before New Year Day, and ending late the day after. The idea is to share a capsule look at the photographer’s life for these few days. … Continue reading

DayPix

DayPix, photograph

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.

DayPix

DayPix ~ Equinox 2006

Daypix 2006