When You Finish A Poem,

I'm A Writer Who Likes To Be Influenced.

You Aren't Just The Age You Are. You Are All The Ages You Ever Have Been!

I Never Thought Of Myself As A New York Poet Or As An American Poet.

One Day The Nouns Were Clustered In The Street. An Adjective Walked By, With Her Dark Beauty. The Nouns Were Struck, Moved, Changed. The Next Day A Verb Drove Up, And Created The Sentence.

One Trouble With A Kind Of Falsely Therapeutic And Always Reassuring Attitude That It Is Easy To Fall Into With Old People, Is The Tendency To Be Satisfied With Too Little.