WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

life

September 18, 2006

The last of the tomatoes, and…

Friend b. tells me: Life is no place to be smart. You not only hurt but you can’t stop thinking about it. This actually cheered me up. Continue reading

Photos 2006, Quotes

life, photo, photograph
January 25, 2006

Snapshot 25 January 02006

MP3 File When I went to New York, to bring my brother home, he was well into the wasting of the disease. He looked like an animated corpse. He asked me to hold him, to share his bed — it had been so long since he’d been touched, held, by anyone. And so I did;… Continue reading

Audio Post, Snapshot Poems 2006

death, grief, life, poem, poetry, Snapshot Poem

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.

life

The last of the tomatoes, and…

Snapshot 25 January 02006