"Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me."
—Sigmund Freud

you do not have to be a fire
for
every mountain blocking you.
you could be a water
and
soft river your way to freedom
too.

— options

“The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness.”

—Charles Simic

And I tell people who struggle with poetry that’s how you should experience poetry too, the way you experience weather. You shouldn’t go into it saying, ‘What is the code? What is the meaning? How do I solve this riddle?’ It’s not a riddle, it’s an atmosphere. And I think that the more I talk to you, the more I feel that you’re a weather-maker as well as a hope-keeper. I  think that’s ultimately what we do – we create atmospheres people can embody.