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.

Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.

But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.