The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.

All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. And before I headed back down the hill, I walked in a circle around your house, making an invisible line which you would have to cross before dark.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.