WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

doubt

February 8, 2006

Snapshot 08 February 02006

For much of the grey afternoonthe red-eyed hawk perched on the garden benchswiveling its marvelous head as I considered our need for God;this longing to have faith in the unlikely, to believein the mathematical inevitability of miracles. In the white laboratory we tryto locate, to weigh and measure — not God, but ourdesire for God.… Continue reading

Snapshot Poems 2006

doubt, faith, god, poem, poetry, religion, Science

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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.

doubt

Snapshot 08 February 02006