Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

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

You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

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

If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance.

Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.