Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?

Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

The days are stacked against what we think we are.