WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

photo-sharing sites

July 7, 2006

Zoo[o]mr

Zooomr is a new photo-sharing site, clearly trying to position itself as a flickr competitor. I’m pretty happy with flickr, and unlikely to switch — but since Zooomr is offering free pro accounts to bloggers, I figured I’d give it a try. So here’s my weekly squirrel photo, downloaded from flickr; uploaded to Zooomr. Continue reading

Critters, Tools & Toys

Flickr, photo-sharing sites, photograph, photography, squirrel, zooomr

Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

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.

photo-sharing sites

Zoo[o]mr