WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

mountain ash tree

December 11, 2006

MFK FISHER on not writing

"I think that many people want to write, but of them few have the will to. I write more than half the things I do or say or think. I can see the words on the sheet of paper and see the pen writing them. And in my head a voice, a kind of silent… Continue reading

Holidailies, Photos 2006, Quotes, Writing

Holidailies, MFK Fisher, mountain ash tree, photo, photograph, Quotes, Writing
October 4, 2006

Snapshot Poem 04 October 02006

The pond is filling with leaves, curled and tattered and gold. Wind shakes the gilding from birch trees; this neighborhood whispers with gossip of autumn. The news tells me my government lies. I mourn my lack of astonishment, seek comfort in Mozart and Bach. No consolation for me in illusions of faith and religion. These… Continue reading

Photos 2006, Snapshot Poems 2006

mountain ash tree, photograph, poem, poetry, Snapshot Poem
June 15, 2006

Thursday Walk

Glorious poppies, almost done: A very old mountain ash tree: And a younger, but aging, park bench: Continue reading

Utata

bark, mountain ash tree, park bench, photo, photograph, poppy

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.

mountain ash tree

MFK FISHER on not writing

Snapshot Poem 04 October 02006

Thursday Walk