I AM A WRITER

a writer is a writer, no matter what sort of work she’s doing, as long as she is thinking, still, like a writer: observing and mentally composing and watching the world with curiosity. Writing is a lovely, life-affirming thing to do, even if the world never rewards us for it, or never rewards us enough to allow us to make it the main thing in our... See more

As writers we live in a strange tension where what we experience is always double-experienced. First, of course, by our human heart. Second, by our poet heart, a far more mysterious cataloguer & cherisher of events. Where the human heart wants to step away from a painful, blistering event, the poet heart steps forward & says, "I see, I'll say, I... See more