WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Rolling Stones

October 8, 2006

Fossil Stones?

You probably know that the Rolling Stones were in Missoula this week. At least one Montana blogger attended the concert; my next-door neighbor and I just sat on the deck and listened, watching the light show reflect off the cloud cover. She stuck with it the whole time; I came & went. The other next… Continue reading

Frivolity, Photos 2006

dinosaur, missoula, photograph, Rolling Stones

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.

Rolling Stones

Fossil Stones?