There'll Always Be Working People In My

Back Then, I Couldn't Have Left A Poem A Year And Gone Back To It.

I'm Seventy-one Now, So It's Hard To Imagine A Dramatic Change.

If That Voice That You Created That Is Most Alive In The Poem Isn't Carried Throughout The Whole Poem, Then I Destroy Where It's Not There, And I Reconstruct It So That That Voice Is The Dominant Voice In The Poem.

Now I Must Wait And Be Still And Say Nothing I Don't Know, Nothing I Haven't Lived Over And Over, And That's Everything.

There'll Always Be Working People In My Poems Because I Grew Up With Them, And I Am A Poet Of Memory.