These have been strange days. . . I feel somewhat altered...

These have been strange days. . . I feel somewhat altered today. As a poet, I always feel that's its difficult to stop my thinking from thinking. Somewhere in the moment when a thought has reached beyond words, I build an image to try to capture it's feeling. It's more difficult than it seems, and sometimes, I wish there was a handbook for poets that warns of building fires too close to home. Finally, after five years of consistent travel and reading appearances, the poems are beginning to arri