WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Frivolity

June 16, 2006

It’s Friday.

Find your own pose! Via Spooks By Me Continue reading

Quizzes

Frivolity, quiz, sleep
May 3, 2004

Small Pleasures (in a Large World)

Henry AKA Oh!Henry! AKA Henry!No! Read other people’s Grocery Lists; Or make your own Mr. Picassohead; Admire someone else’s collection of HEAVY LITTLE OBJECTS; Or visit this week’s Carnival of Cats. Continue reading

Critters, Frivolity

cat, dog, Frivolity

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.

Frivolity

It’s Friday.

Small Pleasures (in a Large World)