We Tend To Put Poems Into Factions.

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

There Have Been Two Popular Subjects For Poetry In The Last Few Decades: The Vietnam War And Aids, About Both Of Which Almost All Of Us Have Felt Deeply.

I Had Assumed That I Would Age With All My Friends Growing Old Around Me, Dying Off Very Gradually One By One. And Here Was A Plague That Cut Them Off So Early.

I Don't Know How To Sit Outside Myself And Test Against A Hypothetical Self Who Stayed Home.

Deep Feeling Doesn't Make For Good Poetry. A Way With Language Would Be A Bit Of Help.