Poetry grounds me. It is an escape as much as a mirror of my thoughts and feelings, positive or negative. It helped me grow; it allows me to heal. Poetry is the lens I need to try to make sense of it all. Or to navigate the uncertainty, to say the least. ..

I think poetry is or can be a lot of things, but for me, it's always been a doorway. In a sense, it is the threshold between the incarnate and the intangible; it’s how we make material of the occult. A poem can be everything, really—defying and collapsing time and aspects of selves. So, maybe it is a way to express the soul?

A tool to heal. A mirror. An edited journal entry. A commentary. A succinct observation about a vast occurrence. God for Dummies.

What is poetry to you? Sometimes it’s violent drunken theater but these days it’s more about categorizing impressions.