“Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.”

“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.”

“Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.”

“I was born with my eyes turned inward.”

“A poem without metaphor is a gelding”