“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
Walking in the woods
scat, paw prints, hollowed out hives
but never the bear!
The rustling brush
quail scatter to open field
fooled by autumn wind.
How cheery, a tiny home
decorated with pumpkins
 and bright red flowers.
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.