Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.