so then i cannot escape the obviously biographical nature in my writing even when there was a period not too long ago that i tried to void the self and work purely in grammar. but language is a collection of agreements over time, and we are those that do the agreeing. ontology squares off with teleology. the alpha and the omega butting heads again.

but the personal in poetry, of every kind, is what attracts me in the first place. i'm looking for a grounding of selves thru the experience/experiments of words. when i read the blogs of fellow poets i want poems but also journal entries, mini-essays, random notes and thoughts.