Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

We've learned to see the world in gasps.

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.