I Accept Challenges, I Have Always Done

Poetry Seems To Sink Into Us The Way Prose Doesn't. I Can Still Quote Verses I Learned When I Was Very Young, But I Have Trouble Remembering One Line Of A Novel I Just Finished Reading.

She Comes By Night, In Fearsome Flight, In Garments Black As Pitch, The Queen Of Doom Upon Her Broom, The Wild And Wicked Witch.

Writing Gives Me The Opportunity To Explore Ideas, Play With Language, Solve Problems, Use My Imagination, And Draw On My Own Childhood.

A Poet Is Not Something You Become; A Poet Is Something You Are.

I Invented Animals And Birds - I Had About Two Dozen. After Working On Them For Six Months, I Sat Down And Just For Fun Wrote Two Dozen Poems To Accompany The Drawings. It Was For No One To Every See, But A Friend Sent Me In To An Editor.