Said Not Said
How should a poem respond to the fundamentally unacceptable dimensions of human experience? What good is a poem in the face of irremediable illness, the death of innocents, human predation? Why persist in searching for words and images that inevitably prove inadequate to experiences that seem beyond words, beyond imagining? These are the questions that reside at the core of SAID NOT SAID.
Poems
Pear Tree in Flower
Sometimes a tree will do anything you ask.
You must speak to it softly, as carefully as you . . .
I am not kidding.