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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Drag – WATERMARK

. . . I was in my twenties when I realized that I, too, dressed in drag. Let me be clear, I was fine being female, never wanted to be a boy, was not even a tomboy. Though I did covet some of the boy p...

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Caturday – Beau – WATERMARK

Picture Perfect Beau, August 02020. Digital collage by sb. Full credits at flickr.

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Snapshot Poem 10 June 02026 – WATERMARK

The day after the colonoscopy / I open the blinds to rain and roses. / The room was well-aired-out / yesterday. So was I. /

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Claude can’t tell me what happens next. – WATERMARK

It’s been several weeks now that I’ve been reading and watching videos about AI, trying to educate myself. I have no computer science education, so much of this is over my head. Which is ok, as I am m...

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This is not a poem – WATERMARK

He uses his post-post-modern perspective to deconstruct the new aesthetic. It’s no longer about gender; it’s about synapses. Her emotions are binary, randomly generated. He lights her heart afire with...

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