But my favorite changes. Sometimes it's the Woman Pouring Milk because of her utter attention and the way she' s surrounded with such abundance of texture. They're wonderful studies in deep engaged work, as so many of the paintings of women also are. Your primary area of professional research and writing is medical humanities, which is a quite a bit different from writing poetry. Prose comes easily and naturally to me and I enjoy it as play, as a skill, and as a craft that's pliable and rich with possibility.
Poetry comes when it comes.
Prose feels more like something I generate and compose, though a graceful sentence seems like a gift. But poems always seem like gifts. They come more or less unbidden, and I feel more grateful than self-satisfied when I read one over and see something lucid and true in it. There did come a blessed moment in adulthood when I threw out a lot of rather drippy juvenalia that I'm happy to have let go of. I value the process, but have learned to let go of what needed to be written more than it needs to be saved.