"CALLING Wind rocks the porch chair somebody home."

"MIRRORMENT Birds are flowers flying and flowers perched birds."

"SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the wind and give the wind away"

"THEIR SEX LIFE One failure on top of another"

"Artist should be left alone to paint or not to paint, write or not to write."

"I’ve always been highly energized and have written poems in spurts. From the god-given first line right through the p…"

"Unless I have something already moving through the mind, I don’t go to the typewriter at all. The world has so many p…"

"I write for love, respect, money, fame, honor, redemption. I write to be included in a world I feel rejected by. But …"

"I couldn’t avoid being a poet. I was really having a pretty rough time of things, and I had a lot of energy, and poem…"

"Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings."