... The Natural World Is

Everybody Has To Have Their Little Tooth Of Power. Everybody Wants To Be Able To Bite.

We All Have A Hungry Heart, And One Of The Things We Hunger For Is Happiness.

When It's Over, I Want To Say: All My Life I Was A Bride Married To Amazement. I Was The Bridegroom, Taking The World Into My Arms.

Far Off In The Red Mangroves An Alligator Has Heaved Himself Onto A Hummock Of Grass And Lies There, Studying His Poems.

I Worked Privately, And Sometimes I Feel That Might Be Better For Poets Than The Kind Of Social Workshop Gathering. My School Was The Great Poets: I Read, And I Read, And I Read.