All I know is a door into the dark

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

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

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.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.