WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

earth mother

April 8, 2014

Poem-A-Day #8

Prompt: violent Mother is angry. The boys have vandalized the garden. Their science experiment has filled the house with fumes. They have sealed their sisters in the basement. The parakeet lies dead on the floor of his cage. Father has locked himself in his Den with the Financial Times.… Continue reading

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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.

earth mother

Poem-A-Day #8