GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me

Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be.

You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own.

I have tried in my way to be free.