When I Talk Of Taking A Trip

I'd Call It Love If Love Didn't Take So Many Years But Lust Too Is A Jewel.

Increasingly I Think Of Poetry As A Theatre Of Voices, Not As Coming From A Single "i" Or From Any One Position. I Want To Imagine Voices Different From My Own.

When Someone With The Authority Of A Teacher, Say, Describes The World And You Are Not In It, There Is A Moment Of Psychic Disequilibrium, As If You Looked Into A Mirror And Saw Nothing. Yet You Know You Exist And Others Like You, That This Is A Game With Mirrors. It Takes Some Strength Of Soul--and Not Just Individual Strength, But Collective Understanding--to Resist This Void, This Nonbeing, Into Which Are Thrust, And To Stand Up, Demanding To Be Seen And Heard.

When One Woman Tells Her Truth, It Makes A Space For Other Women To Tell Their Truths.

In A World Where Language And Naming Are Power, Silence Is Oppression, Is Violence.