I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

Walk on air against your better judgement.

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

I shall gain glory or die.