The poems in the fifth section are from a book I'm trying to get published.
I thought it was like a gift from God. I hate that we had the disaster, but it gave us some joy.
We came down to see the steam cars and there were more than just steam cars, but old gasoline-powered cars and a replica of the Stanley Steamer that set the record 100 years ago.
It's been a long time coming, but we're almost there.
I'm not sure of any direct influence, but some of my most successful poems are short poems. They have kind of a distilled focus, like Dickinson. They're very elliptical. She is quite elliptical - she distills down to the core. But my poetry doesn't sound like Dickinson's.