WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

meanderings

April 5, 2004

Scatterings

I am still new enough at this to be startled when one of my own snapshots appears as I"m reading my Bloglines (thank you, Ryan.) I’m up half the night and asleep half the day. Here it is, Monday again, past noon again, and too much undone. Someone on the Web who is into… Continue reading

garden, Noticed, Photos 2004

image, meanderings, photograph

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.

meanderings

Scatterings