Streams and mountains never stay the same.

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses

In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.

Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.

I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.