WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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June 4, 2009

Traveling to Arizona | snapshot poem

flat-bottomed clouds, piled highice-cream scoops in a blue dish home-made chocolate sryupwind chimes singing what is fundamental? what is superfluous? mockingbirds, cactus wrens, hummingbirds at the sugar water a woman, forgotten, in an outdoor cage heat waving up from the pavement the thin & frightened girl, wild-eyed,weighing in for chemotherapy recliner chairs and IV stands… Continue reading

Snapshot Poems 2009

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Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe 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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Traveling to Arizona | snapshot poem