WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Joseph Serr

July 17, 2005

This world of dew . . .

Always, there are losses. Three people in particular are on my mind today: Joseph Serr Jesse Lynn Wendy Ewell Many are grateful for the richness you brought into this world, and we thank you. That wealth survives you. Continue reading

garden, Personal, Photos 2005

Jesse Lynn, Joseph Serr, Wendy Ewell

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.

Joseph Serr

This world of dew . . .