If You Can't Be Free, Be A

For Many Years, I Thought A Poem Was A Whisper Overheard, Not An Aria Heard.

I Prefer To Explore The Most Intimate Moments, The Smaller, Crystallized Details We All Hinge Our Lives On.

All Of Us Have Moments In Our Childhood Where We Come Alive For The First Time. And We Go Back To Those Moments And Think, This Is When I Became Myself.

I Was Appointed Poet Laureate. It Came Totally Out Of The Blue Because Most Poet Laureates Had Been Considerably Older Than I. It Was Not Something That I Even Had Begun To Dream About!

A Good Poem Is Like A Bouillon Cube. It's Concentrated And It Nourishes You When You Need It.