You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

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.

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches.

Bugs Bunny is my muse.