His Blood Is Black And Boiling Hot,

Otherwise I Don't Read Much Adult Poetry At All, Because I'm Not Smart Enough And Mostly I Don't Get It.

Writing Gives Me The Opportunity To Explore Ideas, Play With Language, Solve Problems, Use My Imagination, And Draw On My Own Childhood.

The Sound Of A Word Is At Least As Important As The Meaning.

After I'd Produced About Two Dozen Pen And Ink Drawings, One Evening I Decided That They Needed Poems To Accompany Them. I Still Have No Idea Where That Notion Came From, But It Took Me About Two Hours To Produce Verses For These Creatures.

I Look For Poetry In English Because It's The Only Language I Read.