WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

eccentricity

May 28, 2006

Why the neighbors might think I’m weird

I watched myself this morning. It was raining, so I had this big bump on my chest — where the camera hides under my jacket on wet days. Stopped to chat with a crow that flew into a small tree and tipped its head at me. In the park, when I bent down to pick… Continue reading

Noticed, Photos 2006

attention, dandelion, eccentricity, photograph, talk to the animals

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, 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.

eccentricity

Why the neighbors might think I’m weird