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“I’ve know Kate for many years, as a friend and poetry teacher. Her poems speak to me plainly and honestly. Though I consider them “reader-friendly.” (for me that means they’re easy on the eyes and ear -- no high-minded language or atypical formatting), they’re very well crafted poems, lyrical and some, also formal. Poems, filled with questions and answers, observation, declaration, suprise.”  ~ R.S.R.~

You must accept that’s who he really is. You must accept that you cannot be his unless he can be yours. No compromise. He is a canvas on which paint never dries; a clay that never sets; he’s steel that bends in a breeze; he’s a melody that when it ends no one can whistle; he is not who you thought. He’s not. He is a shoe that walks away: “I will not go where you want to go.” “Why, then, are you a shoe?” “I’m not. I have the sole of a lover but don’t know what love is.” “Discover it, then.” “Will I have to go where you go?” “Sometimes.” “Be patient with you?” “Yes.” “Then, no.” You have to hear what he is telling you and see what he is; how it is killing you.