WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

“Dead Man poetry”

December 15, 2010

The Dead Woman and Sex

1. The Dead Woman and Sex The dead woman is thinking about sex. Its renowned generative power, the excitement of being alive. She remembers that orgasm is called the little death. She thinks about anatomy, and how hers is dissipating. She is fucking the universe. She is melting, melting. She is using her… Continue reading

Poems

“Big Tent Poetry”, “Dead Man poetry”, poem

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.

“Dead Man poetry”

The Dead Woman and Sex