WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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December 9, 2007

Reflections

There was a time when no one knew what they looked like. Unless they happened upon a well lit, quiet pond, they knew themselves only in the responses of others. What would that be like? To know, by sight, one’s hands, one’s feet — but your own face would be a mystery. Your only clues… Continue reading

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Holidailies, mirrors, projection, reflections, self-image

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.

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Reflections