WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

managing illness

January 29, 2008

Some Suggestions

Those look like mystery tracks, don't they? Those are Lucy's front paws and nose, as she reached up to eat the snow. I was there, so I could read them. The mystery tracks of this illness are not, apparently, so easily deciphered. There they are, for all to see — but what made them? This… Continue reading

Managing

“chronic fatigue”, CFIDS, CFS, chronic illness, handicapped parking permit, M.E., managing illness, meals on wheels

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.

managing illness

Some Suggestions