B I C Y C L E S C A N O E S D R U M S

I take seriously what Ezra Pound said make poetry new. I do not want to write like anyone else if that's possible. I want to create new forms of poetry. Sure I have been influenced by many writers who write differently than I do whether it is in style theme or topics but I respect all forms and styles of poetry. I am experimenting all the time. Each time I write it is as if it is my first time like I have not done it before. The poem and the way it is put together becomes the object I am writing about as well as the subject. The way the poem is written is part of its meaning. All of it I feel comes from a deep and original and yet common place. I write to try to understand myself and the world and to question the things we just assume to be true but mostly I write to remember the brightness of being alive.