Seeing Yourself As Responsible For The Quality

Many Poets Write Books. They'll Tell You: Well, I've Got My Next Book, But There Are Two Poems I Need To Write, One About X, One About Y. This Is A Wonder To Me.

Maybe We Can Use A Metaphor For It, Out Of Dance. I Think For Many Years I Was Aware Of The Need, In Dance And In Life, To Breathe Deeply And To Take In More Air Than We Usually Take In.

There Is Something In Me Maybe Someday To Be Written; Now It Is Folded, And Folded, And Folded, Like A Note In School.

This Creature Of The Poem May Assemble Itself Into A Being With Its Own Centrifugal Force.

Baseball Is Reassuring. It Makes Me Feel As If The World Is Not Going To Blow Up.