As writers we need to crack open language.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.

We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.