You need to be distracted.

With so many brothers, I could always find a pair of shorts to borrow and run around in.

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.

In the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.

I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.

I do not think a similar goal, to attain fame, drove me when I was a child and young woman.

When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."