Life or Death

The pervading sense of alienation that has come from pursuing my scholarship alone has created a sense of urgency in my art, in me. I am fighting for something, for the first time, I feel that it's a matter of life or death if it happens. Galway Kinnell has a poem called "prayer" that is simply "whatever happens/ whatever is is what I want/only that but that."

I would never stick my head in an oven, but I understand why Sylvia Plath did. I love what I'm making and sometimes I think that love will kill me.

"how beautiful to be in a state of emergency," as the crazy sage Bjork states.