There Is Something In Me

The Older I Get, The More I Feel.

I Have Never Thought I Could Take It, Not Even For The Children. It Is All I Have Wanted To Do, To Stand Between Them And And Pain. But I Come From A Long Line Of Women Who Put Themselves First.

I Wish I Wrote More About The World At More Distance From Myself.

If I Wrote In A Sonnet Form, I Would Be Distorting. Or If I Had Some Great New Idea For Line Breaks And I Used It In A Poem, But It's Really Not Right For That Poem, But I Wanted It, That Would Be Distorting.

Well, 'the Wellspring' Was Written From 1983 To 1986. And It Had A Section In The Beginning That Was Poems That Began From Others' Experience.