WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

kestrel

November 20, 2004

Erosion

The kestrel is hunting in my garden again today; a garden that saw a brief flurry of snow yesterday, but is now bare. I have been feeling tired, physically, emotionally, spiritually. I think, ‘my heart is breaking’ — but that is not exactly it — it’s more like erosion. My heart is eroding. The photographs… Continue reading

Noticed

Fallujah, garden, god, kestrel, religion, spirituality

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.

kestrel

Erosion