WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Earth Day

April 22, 2008

Earth Day 02008

For Earth Day, I'm reposting this: MP3 File Why Must It Be Beautiful? What is it for, all this beauty? The curve of the spiral from the laddered twist of DNA to the vast wave of galaxies; the green luna moth, breath- taking & ordinary. Does the prey see beauty in its predator? Do gazelles… Continue reading

NaPoWriMo

Earth Day, NaPoWriMo, poem, poetry

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.

Earth Day

Earth Day 02008