In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.

What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a different lesbian energy.

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

Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.

The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.