Everything pays for growing tame.
To build is to dwell.
It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.
Love, we are a small pond.
When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
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.