WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

family vaulues

November 24, 2004

Link Madness

This week’s Carnival of the Cats is at Leslie’s Omnibus; the next will be hosted here at Watermark. Send in your entries by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. I know that this may be a slow week due to the Thanksgiving holiday, but you have lots of time between now and Sunday to Polaroid those kitties.… Continue reading

Frivolity

Art, carnival, cats, creationism, evolution, family vaulues, gardening, generator, gnomes

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.

family vaulues

Link Madness