WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

kitten

February 25, 2005

R.F.O.A.C.

This is a Reasonable Facsimile Of A Cat — it’s in the rules, really, check it out (rule #3.) Actually, I could do lots of these, and I might, if the real cats keep hiding from the camera. If you must have real ones, though, Hanan sends this one. We also have this Bulletin: a… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 3

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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.

kitten

R.F.O.A.C.