WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

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scrapbooking

February 21, 2011

Scrapbooking, a Woman’s Thing

www.flickr.com http://www.flickr.com/badge_code_v2.gne?show_name=1&count=5&display=random&size=s&layout=h&source=user_set&user=36521983286%40N01&set=72157625745914117&context=in%2Fset-72157625745914117%2F sbpoet's Yesterday & Today photoset I’m having a hard time writing about this. Scrapbooking — a woman’s thing. Mostly a mother’s thing. I’ve come across several creative words for this: Memory-Keeper. Life Artist. Story-Keeper. I find myself caught in old nets: what men do is art; what women do is craft. And one… Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Personal

digital scrapbooking, memoir, memory-keeping, scrapbook, scrapbooking
January 9, 2011

Isolation and Shame

There are side effects of long illness. Isolation is one of them. I was lucky, relative to other folk with chronic illness, in many ways. I was lucky to not have a partner who would — or would not — struggle with this burden. Some few may be lucky to have partners who… Continue reading

mondo beyondo dream lab + gifts of imperfection, One Little Word

Ali Edwards, brene brown, chronic illness, isolation, One Little Word, scrapbooking, shame

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.

scrapbooking

Scrapbooking, a Woman’s Thing

Isolation and Shame