I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.