WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

kestral

July 8, 2006

…in the garden

[I’m on vacation. This was originally posted Sunday, 02 May 2004] Blue clematis bells; their white tongues. Woke early, slept, woke, slept — finally up at 11:00. The angelique tulips are open; lilacs are showing their color. Just now, at mid-day, there’s a soft breeze in the garden. I am living in realms of sleep,… Continue reading

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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.

kestral

…in the garden