Each thing gives us something else...The more any of us writes, the more our words will "come to us." If we trust in the words and their own mysterio… - Naomi Shihab Nye

I feel very close to that part of each of us which remains young, idealistic, and curious. (2019)

I suggest that blood be bigger than what we're born with, that blood keep growing and growing as we live; otherwise how will we become true citizens of the world? For twenty years, working as a visiting writer in dozens of schools in my city and elsewhere. I have carried poems by writers of many cultures into classrooms, feeling the large family of voices linking human experience. We have no borders when we read.

Language is its own music.