WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

kittens

July 25, 2025

Bosho & Bonbon

poems, chocolate, kittens / consolation / in trying times / Continue reading

Critters

cat, haiku, kittens, smallpoem
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

cat, cats, Friday Cat Blogging, kitten, kittens
November 19, 2004

Way Too Cute. Really.

[Click for larger image] No, not them (though they are pretty cute, aren’t they?) These (via MonkeyFilter): [Click to go to site] There must be a hundred photos of kittens at this site, all, I think, by the same photographer. Then there is The Amazing Cat Collection; Military Cat; Hat Cat; Wet Cat;… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 2

cats, cute, kittens, photograph

DISCLAIMERS:

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.

kittens

Bosho & Bonbon

R.F.O.A.C.

Way Too Cute. Really.