“I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.”
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An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.