When I Go Fishing I Like To

I Was Very Interested In American Poetry For Many Years. Much Less Now.

All I Write About Is What's Happened To Me And To People I Know, And The Better I Know Them, The More Likely They Are To Be Written About.

I Learned Words, I Learned Words; But Half Of Them Died From Lack Of Exercise. And The Ones I Use Often Look At Me With A Look That Whispers, Liar.

And In A Way, That's Been A Help To Me, Because I Take Great Passions For A Particular Poet - Sometimes It Lasts For Many Years, Sometimes Only For A While. This Happens To Everybody.

Landscape Is My Religion. ...god In A Green Legend, I Lean Over The Pool In A Testament Of Leaves. I Dangle My Twinkling Mood Before Me In A Cool Cave Roofed With Branches And Floored With A Skin Of Water.