I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
Amazement awaits us at every corner.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.