Love is a Fool Star I am guilty of interjecting (constantly interjecting) quotations and metaphors into conversations. More than a few friends will confirm this. Here’s one from the internationally celebrated saxophonist-composer-bandleader-poet And playwright Archie Shepp . I think it captures both my inner (you know, the mill where poems often struggle to find their way to the end of the assembly line) and outer lives perfectly. “I passed through the insipid panorama of Americana with an enormous romanticism. It has never left me.” If I could fit that on a headstone, baby- I would. My … [Read more...]