WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

winter rain

February 14, 2008

Snapshot Poem 13 February 02008

winter rainunsheathing winter rain brown ground emerges from its snowy scabbard goldfish rise drowsy to the rippling surface of their small pond drift back down puddles and dirty runnels soak the flower beds a woodpecker searches under the shingles the city sends its workers out in white trucks to cut back and collect ice broken… 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.

winter rain

Snapshot Poem 13 February 02008