So I suppose poetry language the shaping of it was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
But poetry is a way of language it is not its subject or its maker's...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made between patriotism which is attachment to a way of life and nationalism which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
