WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

visual poetry

August 31, 2006

Poetry Thursday

Today I’m just playin’ around… Some of these links I’ve posted before: Poetry Tool. Via Ample Sanity My girl poet name is Amanda Blatherfroth. My boy poet name is Sir Francis De La Smarme. What’s yours? Hers. His. Also via Ample Sanity, of course. Others are new: Magnetic Poetryrandomly generated beat poetryNobodyHere [dunno… Continue reading

Frivolity, Poems, poetry thursday

poem, poetry, visual poetry, Writing
December 24, 2005

Winter Solstice It was dark and cold and Grandmother said let’s make a picnic, we’ll hang the beaded sun on the ceiling, have lunch from a willow basket. She laid out great-grandmother’s quilt, orange and yellow and blue, a homespun lawn on the carpet, and I in my nightgown and she in her lavender dress,… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Poems

christmas, concrete poetry, poem, poetry, solstice, visual poetry

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.

visual poetry

Poetry Thursday