WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

disability

October 22, 2007

Invalid

@ Wiktionary: invalid [adjective] not valid; not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate invalid (plural invalids) [noun] One who is confined to home or bed due to illness, disability or injury Any person with disability, e.g. invalid carriage Usage notes The sense of a person confined to home or bed is considered politically incorrect by some.… Continue reading

Personal

CFIDS, CFS, disability, FMS, illness, M.E.
February 5, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 4: Recovering a Sense of Integrity

NO-READING week is over as of 10:00 pm tonight. And I will be glad to have it behind me. I learned that not-reading does not, for me, free up vast amounts of energy, though it does free up time — that commodity others covet, and of which I have plenty. I wrote a bit more.… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Art, disability, illness, shame, The Artist’s Way

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.

disability

Invalid

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 4: Recovering a Sense of Integrity