I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.

I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.

I write novels and other things.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.