When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.

In that way, I don't understand myself. It might have to do with my own conflicts, where to place my body as a child, which I have carried over to now. In this way I'm constantly dislocated.

It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over.

The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem is gone.

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

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

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.