Every breath is a resurrection.

Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.

Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most emotion for the most people in our culture. everyone LOVES poetry, because we all love (one form or another) of rock and roll (be it folk to emo to rap). It's all rock and roll and all lyric poetry.

Every breath is a resurrection.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.