Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.
People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.
Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.
Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face.
While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.
It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys.
A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other's individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level.
The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.