WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

summer solstice

June 21, 2009

Summer Solstice | Sitka, Alaska | 1993

This day blooms under wide meadows of sky. We lay our sun-stunned bodies in constellations of clover and buttercups. Salmonberry bubbles of sweet red light break on our tongues. Shooting stars in the flowerbeds, pollen in our sheets. For an audio post of this poem, go here. Continue reading

Poems

poem, summer solstice
June 21, 2004

Summer Solstice, Sitka, Alaska 1993

This day blooms under wide meadows of sky. We lay our sun-stunned bodies in constellations of clover and buttercups. Salmonberry bubbles of sweet red light break on our tongues. Shooting stars in the flowerbeds, pollen in our sheets. Continue reading

Audio Post, garden, Photos 2004, Poems

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DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, 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.

summer solstice

Summer Solstice | Sitka, Alaska | 1993

Summer Solstice, Sitka, Alaska 1993