Up From The Bronze, I Saw Water

Once Form Has Been Smashed, It Has Been Smashed For Good, And Once A Forbidden Subject Has Been Released, It Has Been Released For Good.

The Measured Blood Beats Out The Year's Delay.

I Hope That One Or Two Immortal Lyrics Will Come Out Of All This Tumbling Around.

I Don't Like Quintessential Certitude.

It Is Not Possible, For A Poet, Writing In Any Language, To Protect Himself From The Tragic Elements In Human Life.... [ellipsis In Source] Illness, Old Age, And Death--subjects As Ancient As Humanity--these Are The Subjects That The Poet Must Speak Of Very Nearly From The First Moment That He Begins To Speak.