Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother and partly because...
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
