WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

July 24, 2026

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Layered collage in golds and reds: a meditating bronze Buddha at center, butterflies rising from his head, hand-lettered above him "Everything changes / Everything is connected / Pay Attention," surrounded by two birds, a Hindu dancer, and vintage photographs. — **Jane Hirshfield: Buddhism in Seven Words.** Digital collage by sb. Full credits @ flickr.

Someone has been searching for Contact on Watermark. My oversight! So I have made a Contact Page, linked above in the navigation bar. I look forward to hearing from you!

community, Connect, Contact, Digital Collage, Introduce Yourself!

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.

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