My Earliest Poems Were A Way Of

Some Things You Know All Your Life. They Are So Simple And True They Must Be Said Without Elegance, Meter And Rhyme...they Must Be Naked And Alone, They Must Stand For Themselves.

You Have To Follow Where The Poem Leads. And It Will Surprise You. It Will Say Things You Didn't Expect To Say. And You Look At The Poem And You Realize, 'that Is Truly What I Felt.' That Is Truly What I Saw.

I Find You In These Tears, Few, Useless And Here At Last. Don't Come Back.

The Irony Is, Going To Work Every Day Became The Subject Of Probably My Best Poetry.

Back Then, I Couldn't Have Left A Poem A Year And Gone Back To It.