WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

brother

June 1, 2004

Princess

A little girl up she grew in a valley bowl of sky; a Heidi in white snow with grandfather and goats. She slept beneath a cloud of milky stars and whirled into a Dorothy wind. Up & up she flew into the arms of dwarves, into a crystal crypt and a forest made of thorns.… Continue reading

Poems

brother, fairy tale, Family, poem, poetry, sister
May 30, 2004

My Brother’s Birthday

Richard Julian Broganb. May 30, 1951d. October 4, 1986 Continue reading

Family

AIDS, brother, death
January 16, 2004

Brother Gull

It is an ordinary death for its time, family in a clot around the high, white bed, gull at the window. The man on the bed sticks and twigs, remnants of pain. He opens his hand, lets mine go. The gull lifts from the sill into the solid wall of sky. Continue reading

Poems

brother, death, dick brogan, grief, poem, poetry, richard brogan

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.

brother

Princess

My Brother’s Birthday

Brother Gull