Great Regulars: Here's an example: I remember waking

on the morning of the autumn equinox in 1997, shortly after turning 50, with a line of poetry in my head: "I feel my body letting go of light." I wrote it down immediately, before losing it, and in the act of writing I realized several things about the line: that it was iambic pentameter; that it was obviously connected both to the Earth's seasonal turn toward lessening light at equinox and to my own turn toward older age; and that although it sounded dark, ominous, it felt uplifting and positive to me. [--Floyd Skloot]

from B.T. Shaw: The Oregonian: To Floyd Skloot, poetry emerges from emotional intensity and 'insistence'

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