Cherish your wilderness.

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.

Cherish your wilderness.

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.

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

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

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