WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

summer

June 21, 2026

Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice, Sitka, 1993 This day bloomsunder wide meadowsof sky. We layour sun-stunned bodiesin constellationsof clover and buttercups. Salmonberry bubblesof sweet red lightbreak on our tongues.Shooting starsin the flowerbeds,pollen in our sheets. Continue reading

Digital Collage, Poems, summer

digital collage, poem, solstice, summer
June 12, 2026

Seasons

I’m thinking of posting some old collages, with some old poems. Is that a good idea, or not-so-good? Sometimes when I look back at old work, it inspires me to get back at it. Continue reading

autumn, Digital Collage, haiku, Poems, small poems, spring, summer, winter

digital collage, haiku, seasons, small poems

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.

summer

Summer Solstice

Seasons