Poetry Is The Most Intimate Of All

Everyone Has The Right To Tell The Truth About Her Own Life.

So Much Inspires Me. People Living Their Lives With Courage, Beauty Of All Kinds, Nature In All Its Aspects, People I Love And People I Hardly Know, And, Of Course, Other Poets.

I Think Many People Love Poetry Who Don't Know They Love It. People Are Sometimes Afraid Of Poetry, Or They've Been Introduced To Poetry That Doesn't Speak To Them.

To Love Life, To Love It Even When You Have No Stomach For It And Everything You've Held Dear Crumbles Like Burnt Paper In Your Hands, Your Throat Filled With The Silt Of It. When Grief Sits With You, Its Tropical Heat Thickening The Air, Heavy As Water More Fit For Gills Than Lungs; When Grief Weights You Like Your Own Flesh Only More Of It, An Obesity Of Grief, You Think, How Can A Body Withstand This? Then You Hold Life Like A Face Between Your Palms, A Plain Face, No Charming Smile, No Violet Eyes, And You Say, Yes, I Will Take You I Will Love You, Again.

Visualizing How You Want To Be Is [an] Effective Way To Move Toward Your Goal.