Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.

Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear.

You need a danger to be safe in.

I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.

I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it.

I like poems that are daggers that sing.

July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly.It is beautiful that they have to disappear.It's like the time you said I love you madly.That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year.

Love is God’s medicine.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey

If you're not satisfiedWith the work done by youMeans it has not done!!!

Without judgments life loses its hierarchical quality of being a choice between preferences and by losing that, it loses it's savor.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.

The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

The stars are so far, far away!

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.