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

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

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.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

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