There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.

You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children.

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.