I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

The time on either side of now stands fast.

Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.

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

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.