WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

galaxy

September 25, 2004

Collisions

Originally from the Daily Irrelevant, reBlogged by bev on September 24, 2004 Click image for animated version – slow download, but worth it If you think Earth is a mess, consider the turmoil in the constellation Hydra, where astronomers have spotted two monster galactic clusters slamming together in one of the biggest collisions ever recorded… Continue reading

Science

astronomy, constellation, galaxy, Science, stars
March 10, 2004

Hubble Deep Field

"A galactic brawl. A close encounter with a spiral galaxy. Blue wisps of galaxies. These close-up snapshots of galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field reveal the drama of galactic life." Too much for (my) words. Continue reading

Current Affairs, Science

deep field, galaxies, galaxy, Hubble, image, photograph

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.

galaxy

Collisions

Hubble Deep Field