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

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

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

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.

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.

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