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.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.