WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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January 2, 2009

Kitten Care Advice Needed

Adora-Belle, isn't she? Yes, she is. Sweet, funny, affectionate, playful. One problem — she doesn't bathe herself. I clean the sleep from her eyes in the morning; she doesn't wash her face. I've seen her wash her paws, but that's it. Now she has poop on her tail. Then she swings her tail around, and… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 2009

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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.

dirty kitten

Kitten Care Advice Needed