It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

