News at Eleven: I have a little studio in my garage

that looks out on a lot of green--a big maple, an old live oak, overgrown camellia, a big stand of black bamboo, overgrown weeds. Today all of it's blowing in the breeze.

Some of my poems, perhaps, come closest to expressing my philosophy of life. I'll include a couple short ones here. This from my book Mules of Love (BOA Editions, 2002):

The Thing Is

from The Examiner: How poetry can save your life: an Interview with lesbian poet, author Ellen Bass (Part One)
also The Examiner: How poetry can save your life: an Interview with lesbian poet, author Ellen Bass (Part Two)

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