I Find You In These Tears, Few,

I Have A Sense That Many Americans, Especially Those Like Me With European Or Foreign Parents, Feel They Have To Invent Their Families Just As They Have To Invent Themselves.

For Sure I Once Thought Of Myself As The Poet Who Would Save The Ordinary From Oblivion.

I Write What's Given Me To Write.

How Weightless/ Words Are When Nothing Will Do.

Now I Must Wait And Be Still And Say Nothing I Don't Know, Nothing I Haven't Lived Over And Over, And That's Everything.