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

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

Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.

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

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.

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

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