As always when I think about my writing, I am not sure, and not sure I want to be sure, why people like certain poems. I have had success writing about my childhood from the beginning. This exercise will encourage you to make a childhood memory real. I think a poet is one who won't, who can't let go. I think a poet is someone who has charms.
Language is a poet's swollen river, washing over everywhere, changing the landscape.
Civilizations are dust, but their poetry remains. Poetry is a serious thing, and is serious fun for me. Making my childhood real through writing poetry has liberated me to a degree. I feel like a brief chronicler of my time, if you know what I mean. I do the history with the requisite reverence.