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

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

You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.

I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind.

Being the Stream Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies. Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally into it.

Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.