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 do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was going to change that title to "A."

New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.

In short, for me - I'm kind of projecting onto you - distraction has become a modus vivendi, a way of life. Rather than complaining, I am recognizing that I couldn't do what I wanted to do because I'm distracted.

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

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

My muse is very often, in my mind, a nagger. She nags me.