Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

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.

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

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

Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind

Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside