"Balanced Rock" courtesy of Steven Ritts of Tempe, AZ
and sxc.hu.

SHARP-EDGED & HARD

"To have an audience, you must care about a reader: that statistical non-entity who must purchase your book, read your poems, and be moved enough to remember or even memorize a line or two. So much contemporary poetry seems written for the void, for no one at all— like spam email, it is merely sent out by