WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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April 2, 2004

Soul Food

Inspired by Sugarfused&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 1. Silence 2. Solitude 3. Moving water 4. Mashed potatoes made with butter, cream, and nutmeg 5. Still water, with moon 6. Poems 7. Garden lilies 8. Nina Simone, Jane Siberry, Bach 9. Whale watching 10. Rain 11. Inuit art 12. Work 13. Great-grandmother’s buttermilk pie (tattered recipe below; click for larger… Continue reading

Soul Food

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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.

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Soul Food