When a child my dreams rode on your wishes I was your son high on your horse My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric windy of course.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can...
I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and...
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
