Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
I was the world in which I walked.
Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.