WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

poem poetry

February 10, 2005

Snapshot 09 February 02005

this is all there isthis winter gardenthese bare and dead- leaved branchesthese dreams ofeviction and exile juncos and pinesiskins peckingthe snow, ice draping the fountainthis despairing friendwrestling with god and this caged canaryfilling the sun-room with song Continue reading

Snapshot Poems 2005

poem poetry
October 4, 2004

Brother Gull

It is an ordinary death for its time, family in a clot around the high, white bed, gull at the window. The man on the bed sticks and twigs, remnants of pain. He opens his hand, lets mine go. The gull lifts from the sill into the solid wall of sky. For Richard Continue reading

Poems

poem poetry
May 26, 2004

Snapshot 26 May 02004

too ill to write a snapshot Continue reading

Photos 2004, Snapshot Poems 2004

poem poetry

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.

poem poetry

Snapshot 09 February 02005

Brother Gull

Snapshot 26 May 02004