I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.

To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.

I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.

Write whatever you like!

Walk on air against your better judgement.