WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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March 3, 2004

The Goldfish Are Awake!

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Critters

goldfish, image, photograph
February 28, 2004

Sunroom Orchid

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Photos 2004

image, orchid, photograph, white orchid
February 24, 2004

Winter Graces

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garden, Photos 2004

3 graces, garden, image, photograph, snow, three graces, winter
February 21, 2004

Eve in Winter

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garden, Photos 2004

Eve, image, photograph, snow, winter
January 14, 2004

Ice Fog II

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garden, Photos 2004

fog, image, photograph, winter

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.

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The Goldfish Are Awake!

Sunroom Orchid

Winter Graces

Eve in Winter

Ice Fog II