WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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December 2, 2007

Holidailies: I Introduce Myself

No, I’m not sticking my tongue out at you. Really. But I do love that Wild Thing. Yesterday was the first day of Holidailies, and we were invited to introduce ourselves. Those of you who have been reading Watermark for awhile know me, probably, better than I know myself; but how to introduce myself,… Continue reading

About This Site, Holidailies

Holidailies, introduction, selfportrait
October 5, 2006

National Poetry Day| Identity

This week’s prompt is: The Body. And, coincidentally, or not, today in the UK is: This year’s National Poetry Day theme, ‘Identity’, invites us to explore through poetry one of the crucial issues and talking points in today’s culture. What is identity? How do we develop it? How do we define it? And how… Continue reading

Personal, poetry, poetry thursday

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September 25, 2006

DayPix ~ Equinox 2006

I realize that Watermark has been a bit heavy on photography lately, and light on words — and now there are even more pictures. Brainstorms, an online community I visit now and then, does an occasional project called DayPix, in which interested snapshotters are invited to record three days photographically. I did this over the… Continue reading

DayPix, Photos 2006

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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.

selfportrait

Holidailies: I Introduce Myself

National Poetry Day| Identity

DayPix ~ Equinox 2006