Isn't There A Curious Elegance In How

And The Words We Find Are Always Insufficient, Like Love, Though They Are Often Lovely And All We Have.

I Wrote Poetry For Seven Or Eight Years, Maybe Longer, Before I Could Say I Was A Poet. If People Asked, I'd Say I Wrote Poetry; I Wouldn't Go Further. I Was In My Mid- To Late-thirties Before I Felt That I Was A Poet, Which I Think Meant That I Had Begun To Embody My Poems In Some Way. I Wasn't Just A Writer Of Them. Hard To Say What, As A Poet, My Place In The World Is. Some Place Probably Between Recognition And Neglect.

Although I Know It's Unfair, I Reveal Myself One Mask At A Time.

When I Stop Becoming, That's When I Worry.

I Love What's Left After Love Has Been Tested.