WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

the stick

March 26, 2005

The Stick

I have been passed the stick — twice! So here goes: You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? As I recall, folks in this story memorized books to save them (to save the books) from the fire; they became the book they memorized. My memorization skills were never strong, even… Continue reading

Memes

Books, literature, reading, the stick

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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.

the stick

The Stick