I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.