I'm Usually Working On Eight Or 10

I'm Usually Working On Eight Or 10 Things At Once.

Otherwise I Don't Read Much Adult Poetry At All, Because I'm Not Smart Enough And Mostly I Don't Get It.

I Invented Animals And Birds - I Had About Two Dozen. After Working On Them For Six Months, I Sat Down And Just For Fun Wrote Two Dozen Poems To Accompany The Drawings. It Was For No One To Every See, But A Friend Sent Me In To An Editor.

I Would Go To Sketch Groups And Draw. I Really Enjoyed The Subject Matter, But I Wasn't Good At It.

I've Been Influenced By Poets As Diverse As Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, And Edgar Allan Poe.