Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
Adversity is a stimulus.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.