"     On writing:  I focus on the biographical, not autobiographical, to make social narratives from "inside the sinner" where the poet must exercise empathy and sympathy, render the observed more open to discussion, more human, and perhaps more dignified. I write to create purpose and drama in mundane and meaningless acts. My technique is akin to 'sprung rhythm': I pen/pencil my ideas; revise them into traditional metric/rhyme schemes (not necessarily English); then, I revise a poem into a narrative, free verse/lyrical form. I do this to explore my subject and to distance myself from the poem because, as Plato noted, "Poetry endangers the established order of the soul"; it is what poetry must do, so poets must use care."