Poetry has done enough when it charms but prose must also convince.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
