48. Change Constant

early work, poetry

May 13, 1995
Despite all appearances:  the beard
the added weight, the family and house,
I am the same insecure egotist
who at fifteen first saw the word – –
Would that it were a wild wood
where I wander lost,  yet here.

(from My Book of Changes, 1995)

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I am a poet and a teacher living in central Texas. I attended The University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College's Breadloaf School of English.

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