WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

tree

October 31, 2005

Mountain Ash

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garden, Photos 2005

autumn, autumn color, berries, fall, leaves, Mountain Ash, photograph, red, tree
August 11, 2005

[Belated] Snapshot 10 August 02005

August, the afternoon of the year, when the civilized retreat to shelter and shade. I wake early, before morning climbs over the mountain. I wake hot, distressed. I run away from my dreams. I wake in dampness, and sleep again. I wake late in the morning. I wake in wet sheets. I dream of volcanos,… Continue reading

Photos 2005, Snapshot Poems 2005

photograph, poem, poetry, tree
March 17, 2005

Whose House Is This?

On my morning walk, I noticed that the cottonwoods at the edge of the property have some freshly drilled holes. Are these someone’s house? Or just bug-finding holes? A beautiful downy woodpecker has been visiting my garden, for the suet and sunflower seed. Perhaps he is responsible for this? [click the photo for a larger… Continue reading

Critters

tree, woodpecker
July 26, 2004

Casualty

Last night, hard rain, wind, big thunder. Continue reading

Photos 2004

photograph, storm, tree

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.

tree

Mountain Ash

[Belated] Snapshot 10 August 02005

Whose House Is This?

Casualty