snapshot poem 02 september 02026 – WATERMARK

the letters after your name  are irrelevant your documents  are incomplete the street signs  disagree with one another

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Lineate — Poetry Blocks

The web has never known what to do with a poem. Lineate settles it: true lines, stanzas, indents, and gaps, on every screen. Built by a poet.

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Keep Choosing – WATERMARK

Three of my closest friends died in the past few years. My brother and my best friend years before. Others have been lost to other causes, some still mysterious. I knew this happens with age. I could ...

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IT COULD BE WORSE – WATERMARK

IT COULD BE WORSE. Digital collage by sb in 02014. Credits at flickr. We have encountered a bit of an obstacle, the kind that line up on the road of aging. And as we often do on that road, we keep goi...

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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 32

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.

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Caturday | Cousin Sue & Little Bibs – WATERMARK

Today is Sue's memorial, and I am not there in body, but I and her many many cats and dogs and horses are there in spirit.

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Our Anniversary !!!!!! – WATERMARK

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

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I Talk with Claude – WATERMARK

I am aware that being transparent about my conversations with Claude might result in losing readers. Even losing friends. I have wondered about that at times. But Watermark has always been a place of ...

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Hank Green, Artificial Intelligence, & Missoula Montana – WATERMARK

Was Hank’s mistake using AI at all? Or was it his totally-in-character honest personal disclosure about it? Does either earn the sort of hot-tempered attacks he is enduring? I say no.

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What Lies Behind the Veil of the Body? – WATERMARK

The Guardian recently published an interesting article on the embodied life, by Melanie Challenger: . . . I am unlikely to live to know the answers, but the mysteries continue to draw me.

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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 30

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere, including Substack.

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Ordination – WATERMARK

I dream: Three monks are to be ordained.

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Matilda – WATERMARK

One of the cats has killed Matilda.

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Contact/Connect – WATERMARK

Jane Hirshfield: Buddhism in Seven Words. Digital collage by sb. Full credits @ flickr. Someone has been searching for Contact on Watermark. My oversight! So I have made a Contact Page, linked above i...

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Grace – WATERMARK

. . . a symphony throwing its joy over the city. A herd of wild horses. . . .

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Snapshot Poem 22 July 02026 – WATERMARK

. . . Day after night after day deadly heat. We suffer our own detritus. It beads up on our skin. . . .

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Looking Away – WATERMARK

. . . that story does not make sense. Babies can “report their experience” and they do. They do so loudly. Persuasively. The “medical establishment” apparently managed to ignore the screams. How? Were...

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Transient Global Amnesia: “The Day I’ll Never Remember” – WATERMARK

Veteran journalist Katie Couric revealed that she had a bout of transient global amnesia, a rare but temporary condition that suddenly robs people of nearly all memories even while they maintain self-...

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Again – WATERMARK

I’ve always liked men. I often like aggressive, intelligent, talented men. They’ve often liked me. There were many of those in the groups I ran. I like Platner.

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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 27

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.

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04 July 02026 – WATERMARK

Today we celebrate 250 years of the United State of America, a Celebration of Life at the funeral. Family & friends gather to honor and remember, to share the funny/sad stories, to create a meaningful...

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LINKS & reading – WATERMARK

... Check out that LINKS page. You will see my problem, and that page isn’t even done yet. I have more pages I follow that have not been added. I will be doing that over the next few weeks. Adding, or...

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snapshot poem 01 july 02026 – WATERMARK

i slept through strawberry moon / the roses have let go / the garden is buried in petals

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Bonbon – WATERMARK

He is not beautiful. Aren’t all cats beautiful? Not this one. He has a funny face. Big flat nose. Eyes that always seem to need cleaning. Giant paws with rarely retracted claws. He has a lot to say.

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Three a.m. perseveration & a poem at the end of the world – WATERMARK

. . . I think we have, in fact, literally gone crazy. We have developed a world-wide mental illness. By pretending that what is happening, is not, we make ourselves crazy. We live in unreality. We end...

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