But I Can't And Don't Ever Want

I Deeply Adored My Mum. She Was An Extraordinary Person, Even For The Prejudice I'm Likely To Have. She Was Beautiful, Amusing, A Tremendous Elaborator Of Things Into Comic Proportions And Extravagant In Her Imagination.

I Write Between 5.30am And 9.00. That Way, I Hope I Carry Over Something From My Dream Time.

But Wordsworth Is The Poet I Admire Above All Others.

Poems Are A Hotline To Our Hearts, And We Forget This Emotional Power At Our Peril

I Shall Try To Write A Poem That Is About The Moment But Doesn't Betray Things That Are True To Me As A Poet.