WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

sparrow

January 4, 2011

Snapshot Poem 04 January 02011

today, hawks took two sparrows from the feeder i am readingabout shame and resilience on the other side of the window:ice fog the number of life blowsmay determine toughness through the fog i can see scattered feathers i put my hand to the glass it’s cold even on the warm side Continue reading

Snapshot Poems 2011

hawk, poem, Snapshot Poem, sparrow
January 18, 2005

Life & Death in the Garden

flickr Visual Story Telling group Continue reading

Critters, garden

bird, garden, hawk, hunt, photograph, sparrow, winter
December 28, 2004

Breakfast

I’m taking the day off, but leaving you with a repeat of a readers’ favorite [larger version here] Continue reading

Critters

photograph, sparrow, squirrel
March 13, 2004

Breakfast

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Critters, garden

cute, garden, image, photograph, sparrow, squirrel
February 2, 2004

chickadees

The garden is full of chickadees this morning, and snow. Not a single sparrow. Continue reading

Critters, Noticed

chickadee, snow, sparrow

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.

sparrow

Snapshot Poem 04 January 02011

Life & Death in the Garden

Breakfast

Breakfast

chickadees