WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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September 8, 2005

noah’s day

From noah, at the Well. Posted with his permission. This was my day today: I worked with Katrina evacuees today. I work in the public affairs office of the City of Raleigh. On Monday, 397 evacuees were flown to RDU airport and brought to the former Nortel training facility in west Raleigh to be housed.… Continue reading

Current Affairs

evacuees, FEMA, hurricane, Katrina, Politics, refugees, relief

DISCLAIMERS:

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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noah’s day