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Tonight I feel the stars are out
to use me for target practice.

I said that love heals from inside.

I think of language as our first music.

A goddess of dawn
scooted under a zing of barbed wire
to witness your birth.

Now I have beaten a song back into you, rise and walk away like a panther.

I'm turning you into a girl
chasing a butterfly, a she-wolf
on a hilltop, & then back into a woman.

Whoever said men
hit harder when women
are around, is right.
Word for word,
we beat the love
out of each other.

I am this space my body believes in.

I glimpsed Alice in Wonderland.
Her voice smelled like an orange,
though I'd never peeled an orange.
I knocked on the walls, in a circle.

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

See how forgiving - how brave nature is.

I knew life
Began where I stood in the dark,
Looking out into the light.

You can two-time satan
But you can't lick the Holy Ghost.

Foolhearted mindreader,
help us see how
the heart begs,
how fangs of opprobrium
possess our eyes.

I ate mythology & dreamt'
- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.