What I've Learned About Poetry: A Manifesto of Sorts

It begins with an ache. 

Nothing is too small not to notice.

Let it tell you what it is. 

Fall into a crack.

Create a motion.
Stay in the body. Write inside.
Stay in the body of earth. 

Consider the object to be a symbol and then a tool. 

The beginning must lead the middle to the end. 

Leave room for shadows or ghosts.

Remember the workings of tiny gears inside the clock.

Repeat in a way.   

Be thorough in whatever you are doing.
Stay true. 

What you are given more than suffices.

If you are going in the right direction, the universe will synchronize and give you a gift.

Time falls away from the beginning.

If a sacrifice is needed, it’s the ego. 

Simplicity is your direction.    

The ending happened before you stopped. 

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