Thursday, July 16, 2015. This is not the first time I have felt this sudden emotion in the years after she passed away, but it caught me unawares today after the longest gap in time. If pain persists, however transfigured, there must be some permanence in life and in love.

Flora, Fauna and the Banana. Tiring patience and misleading sense. Tuesday, July 14, 2009. There are poems only a dollop of prolonged inspiration can produce. The idea unfurls by itself, already made, already complete, layer by neatly laid layer. Images follow one another, each one finer than the earlier, enhancing the development of the poem and mining from the germ a self-nourishing process of growth like leaf sprouting on leaf to make a perfectly formed plant.