WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

pain

June 14, 2012

pain braid

[Click the image to see credits & larger sizes at flickr.] Continue reading

digital art journaling

Art, collage, digi, digital, journal, pain
April 7, 2011

Art Journaling: It’s My Body

In January, I signed up for One Little Word, and discovered digital scrapbooking. It's snowballed from there, and now I'm doing digital art journaling. For some reason I am finding it easier to "talk" about being ill in images than in words, and several of the pages I've done are about this. So I may… Continue reading

digital art journaling

chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic illness, fibromyalgia, pain
April 8, 2004

Pain

From Erin: I think maybe pain is not something that happens to you, like a lightning strike, but something you are, like a dream. And this. Go. Now. Continue reading

Noticed, poetry, Quotes

pain, poem

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.

pain

pain braid

Art Journaling: It’s My Body

Pain