WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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December 4, 2007

Holidailies

Today’s Holidailies post is at Abide: A Bad Spell Continue reading

Holidailies

feather, Holidailies, photo, photograph
December 4, 2007

A Bad Spell

A bad spell (which can last for months) means: Energy to do only one or two things per day. Taking a bath or shower counts. So does cooking a meal. So does writing a blog post, or talking on the phone with a friend. Take your pick. Neglecting the pets. Not walking the dogs. Insufficiently… Continue reading

Personal

“chronic fatigue”, CFS, feather, FMS, Holidailies, photograph, Provigil
December 3, 2005

Feather & Snow

the people are blank papyrusupon which god writes her poems the people are poems of grace the poems are a blaze in the snow the snow grows higher & higher all the windows are covered there are winding paths to the doors but they are hidden under the snow the people are walking poems their… Continue reading

Photos 2005, Poems

feather, photograph, poem, snow

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.

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Holidailies

A Bad Spell

Feather & Snow