"Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent them to you.

Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem.

I always wanted to be pretty as a girl, although I believed it was not possible.

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you.