WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

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U.S. politics

February 10, 2008

Hope & Fear

Listening to Barack Obama, I discover that I am feeling — fear. I am afraid to hope. Some of this may be due to my personal circumstances, but much is, I believe, due to long years of observation of American public life. This is not the first candidate in my lifetime to speak of hope;… Continue reading

Politics

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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.

U.S. politics

Hope & Fear