WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

“Independence Day”

July 3, 2011

Happy 4th of July!

Bill of Rights Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Amendment II A well… Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

“4th of July”, “Bill of Rights”, “Independence Day”, “July 4”, Art, collage, digi, digiscrap, digital, journal, scrapbooking, USA
July 4, 2008

July 4th

[This poem’s lines are too long for the column, so I’ve posted it as an image. You will find the text, with broken lines, below the cut.] Continue reading

Current Affairs, Poems

“Independence Day”, “July 4”, patriotism, poem

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.

“Independence Day”

Happy 4th of July!

July 4th