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

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

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

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.

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

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.