I Never Thought Of Myself As A

I Wonder If I Ever Thought Of An Ideal Reader... I Guess When I Was In My 20s And In New York And Maybe Even In My Early 30s, I Would Write For My Wife Janice... Mainly For My Poet Friends And My Wife, Who Was Very Smart About Poetry.

It Seems Everything Is So Full Of Possibilities One Can Hardly Take It All In.

I Don't Think The Nature Of My Poetry Is Satirical Or Even Ironic, I Think It's Essentially Lyrical But Again I Don't Know If It's My Position To Say What My Poetry Is Like.

This Rose Became A Bandanna, Which Became A House, Which Became Infused With All Passion, Which Became A Hideaway, Which Became Yes I Would Like To Have Dinner, Which Became Hands, Which Became Lands, Shores, Beaches, Natives On The Stones, Staring And Wild Beasts In The Trees, Chasing The Hats Of Lost Hunters, And All This Deserves A Tone.

Poetry, Which Is Written While No One Is Looking, Is Meant To Be Looked At For All Time.