A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

The longer a life, the challenge is not the distance between destinations, but the difficulty of travelling light. My soul’s a portmanteau packed full, one half filled with what was, the other with what is, what should be.