WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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May 9, 2006

Haircuts, and a Poll

Pitiful, isn’t it? They are at the groomer right now; I’ll post after photos later. You may have noticed that Watermark has a new hairstyle, too. This may be a temporary condition — I want your opinion — and to get it, I have now tried three different blog poll sites. This one… Continue reading

Critters, Web/Tech

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November 10, 2004

Web/Tech Stuff

Has anyone else been getting innocuous but irrelevant comments on their posts, from folks with dead URL’s? I hesitate to delete something as simple as just wanted to say hi but there are enough of them that I suspect I’m being set up for something. I want to thank those of you who are clicking… Continue reading

Blogging, Web/Tech

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March 9, 2004

Portabella

This weblog experiment is two months old today. How does one tell if such an experiment is a "success"? I can tell from my stats that folks are coming here, though they rarely speak. And links to Watermark have magically appeared on some of my best-loved blogs. From this, I take encouragement. I have learned… Continue reading

Blogging, Photos 2004

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February 18, 2004

February

There is light now in the mornings. I wake away from my dreams. It is snowing. Trees stand straight, colorless against the white sky. I cannot seem to begin. Snow fills the corners of my house. Silent. Glistening. Ice on the mirrors. I have been in winter forever. I cannot see your face. Frost blurs… Continue reading

Poems

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February 15, 2004

small poem

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small poems

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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.

watermark

Haircuts, and a Poll

Web/Tech Stuff

Portabella

February

small poem