WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

digi digital collage scrapbooking digiscrap art journal death loss grief

June 12, 2011

What to do when someone you love …

… is trying to die, or trying to live (it's sometimes hard to tell) on the other side of the world: keep the phone charged & close by make ice cream watch Closer to Truth stay up late into the night sleep dream remember make pictures As always, images are linked to… Continue reading

Art Journal Caravan, Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Personal

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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.

digi digital collage scrapbooking digiscrap art journal death loss grief

What to do when someone you love …