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Before the wonderful, terrible wrestling with words and music there is the state of mind I'm calling 'poetic attention' ... a sort of readiness ... a form of knowing.

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Phenomenology is one name for the path back from the object to the thing, the counterbalance to the objectification or 'progress'.Poetry is another.

The meditative approach acknowledges that one moment will inevitably lead on to the next. We accept immortality instead of fighting it off.

Admitting you are a nature poet, nowadays, may make you seem something of a fool!

The first indication of one's status as a nature poet is that one does not invoke language right off when talking about poetry.

There's a place
between desire and memory, some back porch
we can neither wish nor recall

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