WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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March 12, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion

Last week one of the suggested tasks was to: Choose an artist totem. It might be a doll, a stuffed animal, a carved figurine, or a wind-up toy. The point is to choose something you immediately feel a protective fondness toward. Give your totem a place of honor and then honor it by not beating… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

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January 3, 2006

A New Year

I’ve let my pens dry out again. It’s been so long since I just wrote; oddly, the keyboard suits me better now. Another change. Everywhere, people are making resolutions, and at How to Save the World, Dave is doing the imagination exercise. This exercise — imagine yourself in the future, one year, or five years… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Personal, Photos 2006

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March 22, 2005

urchins

urchins Originally uploaded by anniebee. Reminds me of: Doll Heads Originally uploaded by sbpoet. Continue reading

Photos 2005

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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.

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The Artist’s Way ~ Week 9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion

A New Year

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