I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.
... people get confidential at midnight.
When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.
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.