WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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March 8, 2008

small poem ~ a poem dance!

UPDATED: We have a poem dance! Come dance with us! Add your poem in comments, or email it to me, and I’ll add it to the dance. new moon spring rain begin again ~ sb inspiring thought new chance to… Continue reading

Poem Dancing

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August 22, 2007

snapshot poem 22 august 02007

clear august morning floating on the pond one white feather Continue reading

small poems, Snapshot Poems 2007

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January 3, 2007

New Year Haiku 2007

I keep getting visitors who are looking for New Year Haiku — which I had here, two years ago — when we did a New Year Haiku collaborative poem dance: Andrew tells us there is a tradition of writing a ‘positive’ haiku on the first day of the year. His is here, and Jill has… Continue reading

Poem Dancing, Snapshot Poems 2007

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June 21, 2006

Snapshot Poem 21 June 02006

summer solstice ~ longing for someone who doesn’t long back Continue reading

small poems, Snapshot Poems 2006

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June 18, 2006

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father’s day how he bent over his cane Continue reading

Current Affairs, small poems

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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.

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small poem ~ a poem dance!

snapshot poem 22 august 02007

New Year Haiku 2007

Snapshot Poem 21 June 02006

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