WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

same-sex 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
June 24, 2011

I wish my brother could have seen his beloved state …

… vote to allow him to marry. Richard and Judd Today, at the market, a middle-aged couple, squeezingtomatoes. They remind me of you, one gaunt, grey,with sharp cheekbones; the other large and reddish. I remember you exiting the plane at the Missoula airport,both in huge fur coats, New York queers and proudof it. Christmas,… Continue reading

Personal, Poems, Politics

equality, gay rights, poem, Politics, same-sex marriage

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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.

same-sex marriage

Gender: Tradition!

I wish my brother could have seen his beloved state …