How could one create life with someone who represented death?

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.