In fact I have a total of 48 still pictures and 8 movies on 24 pages. The fact that you are reading this instead of waiting for them to download is, perhaps, a result of good design. Poetry is Bishop and Berryman twisted into wood painted yellow as a bus load of first graders on the first day of school. Poetry is down there in the early years, down at the root of things. Miklos Radnoti said, 'I am the root of myself now, living among the worms.
Every poem is written down there where the pencil makes love to the page.
I live at the root, I teach to stay alive, and I teach because, in spite of all, I love. One has to love. Perhaps occasion often finds me eating books of poetry for breakfast and novels for dinner over red Italian wine and candle light. Yes, I can be romantic. Perhaps I know that God will be in every poem I read this semester.