You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.
Poetry is fired by love.
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.
Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.