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.

Walk on air against your better judgement.

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.

All I know is a door into the dark

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

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.