For You Where Never My Blood Sister

As Individuals, We Are Shaped By Story From The Time Of Birth; We Are Formed By What We Are Told By Our Parents, Our Teachers, Our Intimates.

I Have Learned So Much From Working With Other Poets, Travelling And Reading With Them, Spending Days Discussing Poems In Progress. There Is The Sense That We Are All, As Writers, Part Of Something Which Is More Powerful Than Any Of Us.

To Try To Expunge An Individual's History Is A Terrible Violation.

Reread, Rewrite, Reread, Rewrite. If It Still Doesn’t Work, Throw It Away.

I Concentrate On The Lives Of Individuals Whom The Reader Comes To Know And Feel With Intimately.