WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

mango

May 2, 2004

mango (a found poem)

place (slender) mango slice exposing ends pare away (exquisite) remaining bits of skin slice (perfumed) flesh make two rounded shapes without peeling slice (precious) close to the pit on both sides cutting (abundance) cubes of mango expose flesh without biting (sweetness) skin bend (tongues) fruit backward pushing up under make (shining) bow mango still attached… Continue reading

Found/Collage, Poems

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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.

mango

mango (a found poem)