WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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December 15, 2007

House-Bound Holidays

The other day on BBC Radio news, I heard a piece about small pleasures — that these are the only ones that last, that can be counted on. This is so true for those of us who live, almost entirely, in our own houses. If you are struggling to decide what to give someone who… Continue reading

Friends & Family

gift guide for the chronically ill, gifts for sick people, Holidailies, holiday presents

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.

holiday presents

House-Bound Holidays