WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

New Orleans

September 9, 2005

noah’s second day

From noah, at the Well. Posted with his permission. Today was my second day working at the evacuation center. I arrived a little after 9 a.m. The first person I saw was shooting baskets on one of the goals the City’s Parks and Recreation Department had set up for people. One of the things I… Continue reading

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evacuee, Katrina, New Orleans

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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.

New Orleans

noah’s second day