"Time" does not mean "occasion."

In a way, this kind of insight or recognition often permeates the way I think of character, how I plot action, and the way in which I use imagery, seeing binaries as false.

My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life.

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

When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.

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."