Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem.

The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.