There Are Always The Simple Events Of

When I Stop Becoming, That's When I Worry.

I Wrote Poetry For Seven Or Eight Years, Maybe Longer, Before I Could Say I Was A Poet. If People Asked, I'd Say I Wrote Poetry; I Wouldn't Go Further. I Was In My Mid- To Late-thirties Before I Felt That I Was A Poet, Which I Think Meant That I Had Begun To Embody My Poems In Some Way. I Wasn't Just A Writer Of Them. Hard To Say What, As A Poet, My Place In The World Is. Some Place Probably Between Recognition And Neglect.

I've Tried To Become Someone Else For A While, Only To Discover That He, Too, Was Me.

Bring To Me, It Said, Continual Proof / You've Been Alive.

There Are Always The Simple Events Of Your Life That You Might Try To Convert Into Legend.