WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

vision

February 2, 2006

Synchronicity – Wasteland & Green World

In Crossing to Avalon [the book I was reading when I discovered the Blogging the Artist’s Way group] in the chapter called The Wasteland: Depression and Despair, Jean Shinoda Bolen tells the story of one of her patients: His "nightmare" was actually a waking experience that probably lasted only a matter of seconds. It had… Continue reading

Noticed, Spirit, The Artist’s Way

graffitti, photograph, spirituality, via negativa, via positiva, vision

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.

vision

Synchronicity – Wasteland & Green World