B.K. - Thank you so much, though your praise is undeserved. I slightly altered that poem on the site, as I tend to do after rereading things I've written.
First poem posted here 2001. Still coming back, still finding wonderful things, sixteen years later. As a poet friend of mine says, "Poetry tells us that another person, at another time, in another place, had the same thoughts and feelings we did." It offers a way of connecting to one another that no other medium does. Thanks, Kirk, for continuing to provide a space for those connections.