WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Awareness

June 10, 2026

Consciousness | “a continuous sense of self”

Maybe it’s about interaction. The collision/ connection with other beings. Not just biology, not just intelligence, not just vulnerability or suffering, not just mortality — but … conversation. Not language/ communication exactly, but how it facilitates connection. How it encourages encounters. Perhaps something in that collision, that oh! you are not me then I am… Continue reading

Consciousness, Digital Collage

Awareness, consciousness, digital collage, Self, Sentience

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.

Awareness

Consciousness | “a continuous sense of self”