A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.