I've never been good at these 'About Me' things. I really am not. I suppose I ought to be better at it; I am a poet after all, but then again, how do I express who I am, how do I condense almost four decades of me-ness into a paragraph or two? I'm not sure I really can. So, here's what I will do. The first thing, I will tell you about myself. I am 39; I live alone with my wonderful ferret whose full name is Holly Destroyer-of-Worlds, Ferret-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. She graciously agrees to be called Holly. But I suppose that's not really about me; it's about my ferret. Bother. You see the problem? So let me finish with a poem that I wrote called 'Patterning, which is the best way I know to express who I truly am.

Patterning
I am the stars in all their brightness,
I am the horse that roams the plain,
I am the air in all its lightness,
I am the clouds that bring the rain.
I am the tallest snow-capped mountain,
I am the forest’s reaching trees,
I am the rippling bubbling fountain,
I am the hawk that rides the breeze.
I am the shore that knows the ocean,
I am the wave white-flecked with foam,
I am the wind in ceaseless motion,
I am the pilgrim far from home.
I am the seasons’ endless turning,
I am the right against the wrong,
I am the flame in gladness burning,
I am the voice upraised in song.
I am the dawn in all its glory,
I am the speech of magic’s art,
I am the telling of the story,
I am the dream within my heart.

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