Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.

Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.