WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Terry Schaivo

March 23, 2005

Snapshot 23 March 02005

50 people see sadness and happiness Originally uploaded by brevity. This day passed as quickly as yesterday, no sunrise,only a lightening of sky and later, a darkening.Rain washing down on snow, then snow on rain. A measure of solitude.A measure of sadness. Four a.m. awake in thatborder space. Ice fog… Continue reading

Art, Current Affairs, Snapshot Poems 2005

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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.

Terry Schaivo

Snapshot 23 March 02005