I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.