I’ve noticed this before, but…

The danger in writing an associative poem that takes big metaphoric leaps is that you always feel the tug of trying to make the leaps more obvious and smaller, so the audience/reader is less uncomfortable working with the piece.

The need to ALWAYS be immediately accessible cuts across more than poetry in this culture — movies, books, television, even the need to always have a phone on you and to access e-mail at all times. People are forgetting that fifteen years ago few had cell phones and no one had Blackberries.

Everything shouldn’t always be accessible to you, and that includes meaning.

There are times when I want people to struggle to get my work. Not always, but sometimes, and more often than even I always recognize.