WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

pond

August 8, 2007

Snapshot Poem

08 august 02007 neighbors come and go in the smokey heat this house is dark and cool, cats complaining of boredom and neglectyowling up and down the dusty staircasewhy do we live each day? through fire and flood and darkening news the absence of loves everywhere, pain women laughloudly, in the street don’t they… Continue reading

Photos 2007, Snapshot Poems 2007

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April 23, 2005

Goldfish Pond in Spring

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Photos 2005

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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.

pond

Snapshot Poem

Goldfish Pond in Spring