WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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April 15, 2014

Poem-A-Day #13: Animal

Animal On the afternoon of the morning my neighbor showed off his new slingshot I find a dead squirrel stiffening in the grass. Is she someone I know? Did she grow up with her siblings at my backyard feeder? The nick on her ear seems familiar, but… Continue reading

Critters, NaPoWriMo, Poem-a-Day, Poems

NaPoWriMo, PAD, photo, poem, Poem-a-Day, poetry, Poetry Month, squirrel
January 21, 2012

Squirrel Appreciation Day!

This squirrel is waiting for me to appreciate her. With food. Continue reading

Critters

“squirrel appreciation day”, Art, collage, digi, digiscrap, digital, journal, squirrel
December 10, 2007

Today’s Gratitude

Today I am grateful to the anonymous neighbor who shoveled snow away from my garden gate. Whoever this was also (optimistically) shoveled a clear spot next to my car, and a path to the bird and squirrel feeders. The sparrows and squirrels thank you, too. That’s what she’s saying up there: Thank you! I’m… Continue reading

Personal

gratitude, Holidailies, photo, photograph, squirrel
January 1, 2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

May it be prosperous, bountiful, and generous. Continue reading

Critters, Holidailies

Holidailies, new year, photo, photograph, squirrel
December 9, 2006

Holidailies Squirrel

I can’t believe I signed up for yet another one-post-a-day-for-a-month project. But since I did, here’s a squirrel for you: Continue reading

Critters, Holidailies

Holidailies, photo, photograph, squirrel

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.

squirrel

Poem-A-Day #13: Animal

Squirrel Appreciation Day!

Today’s Gratitude

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Holidailies Squirrel