“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.
