The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

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.

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?

The burial of feelings has begun.