Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.

Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

The body is a damn hard thing to kill.

Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.

Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren