WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

underwear

April 30, 2011

underwear

[… bet that title gets me some disappointed hits] This is for a challenge from Three Muses. I did this one first, then realized I was taking this challenge a bit too literally. So I did another: Click the photos to see larger & credits at flickr. Continue reading

Collage Challenges, Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

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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.