WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

TLB

December 6, 2004

TLB Ecosystem & 2004 Weblog Awards

The Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem has [again] lost its mind. This morning I woke to find this: & a little research found this: And this, to demonstrate its recent eccentricity: So, for the moment, I am a Playful Primate — and who knows what I will be tomorrow. What… Continue reading

About This Site, Blogging

awards, Blogging, ecosystem, TLB, Weblogs
November 6, 2004

On the Lighter Side

For weeks now, I’ve been waiting for TLB to realize that I am not a Large Mammal. I’m merely a Marauding Marsupial, as I’ve been for months. It turns out, I really am a Large Mammal: Bear Spirit Calls To You ~ Bear is spirit keeper of the West, the place of darkness, maturity and… Continue reading

About This Site, Blogging, Frivolity

Blogging, TLB

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.

TLB

TLB Ecosystem & 2004 Weblog Awards

On the Lighter Side