I know Leonard - we followed each other on Twitter - I was invited to meet him and several other Canadian poets by Raymond Souster, another poet who mentored me briefly when I was in university. I didn't

Thank you!

I doubt anyone seriously thought of you in that way - a child-like sense of wonder is a rare gift, and so is sensitivity too, for that matter and I see both qualities in you, Arthur. That is

I did watch it and found the literal interpretation of the poem visually helpful - I wished I could have known about this when I was teaching Prufrock - Oftentimes students think poetry is abstruse when

you're welcome :)

Yes, I agree Arthur - and that's what heaven's for :)

Thanks, Arthur - that is so kind and generous, but actually I do share your views on abortion - even going as far as protest marches but now I try to stop running around stamping out fires - my story Et

Thanks, Alan - yes, but I think everything beautiful is tinged with sadness because it can't last

It began with trying to picture a face

I'm not sure most love isn't :)

Thank you!

The poem is actually serious beneath the satire - I don't believe we are destined to explore the stars and colonize outer space - that place is absolutely alien and foreign to us. When I look at photos

I call it the oyster theory of creativity. An irritant gets under the writer's skin - like a grain of sand invades an oyster shell. The oyster copes by secreting a protein like substance around the grit

Very perceptive, Arthur. I believe in transference of spirit - I think psychotherapists are especially vulnerable to this

I think everything is a dream and I am an incurable romantic in every aspect of the word - I'm an incurable optimist and denier of cynical viewpoints - if there be ghosts, they aren't frightening but

I haven't heard Eliot read before - it was shocking - not at all what I heard in my head when I read his lines. He sounds sepulchral like Marley's ghost in Dicken's, A Christmas Carol. Perhaps I was hearing

I think that haunting beauty exists but some become insensitive to it - I think pornography can do that - you can defile your sensibilities - I really believe that in order to perceive beauty you need

ha ha...very profound, my friend. Thanks , Arthur. A word of explanation - when I began publishing my work in earnest I went under the name John Geddes, but soon discovered there were other writers both

Thank you, Arthur - those metaphors were very poetic and descriptive I always covet your feedback

That third one! some people seem to have no sense - kind of like me going for a run the other day in a heat wave. Deb was worried...about Abbey our dog who was still panting long after we got home. As