A Poem Is An Instant

In Their Effort To Divorce Language And Experience, Deconstructionist Critics Remind Me Of Middle-class Parents Who Do Not Allow Their Children To Play In The Street.

Poems Are Other People's Snapshots In Which We See Our Own Lives.

Inside My Empty Bottle I Was Constructing A Lighthouse While All Others Were Making Ships.

Words Make Love On The Page Like Flies In The Summer Heat And The Poet Is Only The Bemused Spectator.

Wanted: A Needle Swift Enough To Sew This Poem Into A Blanket.