I've always thought my poems told stories.

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I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.

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A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

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Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

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A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

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The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.

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Liquid Light

A liquid light sips dew
From how it is as blossoms foam
With Mary's arboreal aplomb
Against a reminiscent blue.
Day, number, memory,
Kissed hours when day's door hangs ajar
And light crawls on the calendar,
Each routine anniversary
At night, and noon, and dawn,
Are times I meet you, when souls rinse
Together in their moist reunions.
Iambic, feathery Anon
Opens anthologies,
Born and reborn, as days go by
In anniversaries of sky
When oceans cradle little seas
That water in the eye.

poem by Douglas Dunn
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