have this agreement that we do not speak in the morning. There's nothing to say, no conceivable reason for addressing a word to another person. Don't you agree? And then, at one point, one of us will say to the other, 'Is the silence over?'" He [Peter Cooley] begins his work, alternating writing with sipping coffee, then running or walking along the levee near his home near Ochsner Medical Center as he thinks the poem through, returning home for a bowl of cereal before finally heading off to his job as an English professor at Tulane University.
from The Times-Picayune: New Orleans writer Peter Cooley finds poetry in the morning light
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