WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

parakeet

April 5, 2009

Daisy

Daisy died today, and I am feeling sad, and not at all poemy. Continue reading

Critters

budgie, loss, parakeet, photograph
September 22, 2005

Birdie Bums

Not a particularly special photograph, you think? I wouldn’t have thought so myself, until it became part of a Journey: lilitu93 says: Boing! Journey: Birdie Bums map Click those arrows, and you will travel a breadcrumb trail of birdbum photos. What? You have something better to do on a Thursday? Continue reading

Critters

bird, breadcrumbs, budgie, parakeet, photograph
June 17, 2005

Friday Flickr Critter Blogging

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Friday Cat Blogging 4

budgie, Carnival of the Cats, Carnival of the Dogs, cat, dog, Flickr, Flickr Album, Friday Ark, parakeet
April 21, 2005

Cloud & Blue

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Critters

bird, budgie, parakeet, photograph
March 18, 2005

Bookends

Blue & his buddy Spike & Boo Henry & Lucy This week’s Carnival of the Cats; Carnival of the Dogs; Friday Ark.[click photos for larger image] Continue reading

Critters, Friday Cat Blogging 3

bird, budgie, cat, cats, dog, dogs, Friday Cat Blogging, parakeet

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.

parakeet

Daisy

Birdie Bums

Friday Flickr Critter Blogging

Cloud & Blue

Bookends