You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
I write what's given me to write.
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.