WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

wildfire

July 10, 2008

Fire

09 July 02008, Missoula, Montana, USA Mount Sentinel is on fire, and the Constitution is burning,ignited by leftover Independence Day fireworks and fear-brand patriotism. One white helicopter dips water from the Clark Fork, carries it to the line of orange flame. People stand on the river trail, commiserating with one another. Our crews are thin,… Continue reading

Snapshot Poems 2008

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DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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.

wildfire

Fire