Cherish your wilderness..

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings..

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters..

Love, we are a small pond..

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying..

To build is to dwell..

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story..

Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water..

I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The….

Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked….

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems..

God serves the choosy. They know what to want..

The time on either side of now stands fast..

Everything pays for growing tame..

My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in….

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach….

And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life..

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows..

Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?.

I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach..