In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.
I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.
I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.