I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

To build is to dwell.

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

The time on either side of now stands fast.