Being Alive Is A Common Road. It's

I Can Never See Fashion Models, Lean Angular Cheeks, Strutting Hips And Blooming Hair, Without Thinking Of The Skulls At The Catacombs In Lima, Peru.

Getting Over What You Did To Me Is Not Why I Get Out Of Bed Anymore.

Being Good Felt Like A Heavy Coat, So I Took It Off.

As A Direct Line To Human Feeling, Empathic Experience, Genuine Language And Detail, Poetry Is Everything That Headline News Is Not. It Takes Us Inside Situations, Helps Us Imagine Life From More Than One Perspective, Honors Imagery And Metaphor - Those Great Tools Of Thought - And Deepens Our Confidence In A Meaningful World.

The Thousands Small Birds Of January In Their Smooth Soaring Cloud Finding The Trees.