WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

parakeet

March 4, 2005

This Family . . .

[Click images for larger size] Here we have the modern spinster family. Clockwise: Boo; Spike; Blue; and Lucy & Henry wrestling. It’s a busy, active, conversational family, with the usual jealousies and affections. Yesterday the New York Times had an editorial, My Little Chickadee: A team of Dutch scientists, testing a European relative… Continue reading

Critters, Friday Cat Blogging 3

budgie, cat, dog, Friday Cat Blogging, parakeet
February 16, 2005

Snapshot 16 February 02005

Blue Sky Day In which Blue, Blue budgie, little Blue God, Blue bird of Happiness Continue reading

Critters, Photos 2005, Snapshot Poems 2005

bird, parakeet, photograph, poem, poetry
May 16, 2004

Small Losses

Rainbow Wonder January 01999 – May 02004 quiet Sunday morning the empty birdcage Continue reading

Critters, Personal, small poems

death, grief, loss, parakeet, pet

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

This Family . . .

Snapshot 16 February 02005

Small Losses