WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

ME

September 12, 2011

Challenge

[Click the photo for full credits and larger sizes at flickr.] The Art Journal Caravan word for this week is challenge. I don't sit about thinking how sick I am, but this word certainly pulled it out of me. Continue reading

digital art journaling

Art, Art Journal Caravan, CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome, collage, digi, digiscrap, digital, journal, ME, scrapbooking
May 12, 2005

CFIDS/ME & Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

Today is International CFIDS/ME & Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. I posted about this last year, and dutifully do so again. I am unhappily aware of these conditions every day, but most people aren’t — until they or someone they love falls down with it. Last night, Keith Olbermann made a little joke, not quoted here, but… Continue reading

Current Affairs, illness, Personal

awareness day, CFIDS, chronic fatigue immune deficiency syndrome, chronic illness, fibromyalgia, FMS, ME, Myalgic encephalomyelitis

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, 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.

ME

Challenge

CFIDS/ME & Fibromyalgia Awareness Day