FINDING OUT WHAT YOU THINK
After constructing Life-Built Poems for a number of years, I noticed something: You can use the discipline of writing these kinds of poems to look at the world and tell yourself what you see. Like Joan Didion, you can “write to find out what you think.” You can also use Life-Built poems to tell metaphoric tales about what you are doing. At the time I wrote this poem, I was devouring the books that populated the self-help and spiritual sections…