WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

pandemic

August 7, 2026

Our Anniversary !!!!!!

Today was our sixth wedding anniversary. We spent the morning, into the afternoon, in the emergency room. Continue reading

Aging, Digital Collage, Domestic, Family, Memory, Pandemic, Personal

digital collage, elope, pandemic, wedding announcement
January 26, 2018

EVEN IN WINTER

EVEN IN WINTER Made for the Month of challenges at The Lilypad: January 22: Geometrical Mosaics (Technique). Papers are from Little Butterfly Wings and Paula Kesselring (January 2018 M3 kit & add-ons.) The photo is mine. //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

pandemic

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.

pandemic

Our Anniversary !!!!!!

EVEN IN WINTER