WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

marriage

June 18, 2026

Gender: Tradition!

Opponents insist that same-sex marriage is a threat to “traditional” marriage. They are right. But the threat isn’t about marriage. . . . Continue reading

Digital Collage, Gender, Unpopular Opinions

digital collage, gender, marriage, same-sex marriage, sex roles, unpopular opinions
May 3, 2011

Happily ever after?

This is for Green Paper Collage Club. The poem is mine, one of a series: Love 1. Love came to the door one day demanding to be let in. He folded his arms like a man.I crossed my legs like a woman. What do you want from me? he asked. I said, I want you… Continue reading

Collage Challenges, Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Poems

Art, collage, digi, digital, Green Paper Collage Club, love, marriage, poem

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.

marriage

Gender: Tradition!

Happily ever after?