Many Of My Poems Are Not Sexual.

It Was Difficult Being A Teacher And Out Of The Closet In The '50s. By The Time I Retired, The English Department Was Proud Of Having A Gay Poet Of A Certain Minor Fame. It Was A Very Satisfactory Change!

I Deliberately Wrote A Poem In My Last Book Where I Was Suggesting That There Are Other Passions As Great As Or More Important Than The Passion Of Sex.

The Painter Saw What Was, An Alternate Candor And Secrecy Inside The Skin.

We Tend To Put Poems Into Factions. And It Restricts Our Reading.

Many Of My Poems Are Not Sexual.