When I Stop Becoming, That's When I

A True Inner World Is Often Revealed By Style And Sensibility As Much As By What Appears To Be Confession.

There's A Certain Pleasure In Violating The Strictures Of Your Education. The Trick Is, If You're Going To Explore Ideas In A Poem, To Be Suspicious Of Ideas And Suspicious Of Your Own Mind At The Same Time. It's Often A Matter Of Orchestration And Pacing. Of Shaping Some Kind Of Dialectic Flow.

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

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

All Good Poems Are Victories Over Something.