Some Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or triflingly, God of War, but I did not have such a gendered muse in mind then.

One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted.

The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

Is there a term that one might use rather than say that one is homosexual? Is there a different physical gender and symbolic dimension? I'm thinking of Adrienne Rich's notion of the lesbian spectrum. It's not as if sexual identity is binary: one must be either homo or hetero.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.