I Credit Poetry For Making This Space-walk

Once I Was On The Job, Once I Had Got Started, I Felt Safe Enough, But The Anticipation Made Me Tense.

It Is Difficult At Times To Repress The Thought That History Is About As Instructive As An Abattoir.

Poetry Cannot Afford To Lose Its Fundamentally Self-delighting Inventiveness, Its Joy In Being A Process Of Language As Well As A Representation Of Things In The World.

The Most Exhilarating For The Writer And The Reader, Are Gift-things-poems Which Arrive On Their Own Energy, Poems That In William Shakespeare's Term "slip" From You.

Even If The Hopes You Started Out With Are Dashed, Hope Has To Be Maintained.