A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

I don't think I do have a soul.