Jack
children writing voice
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
writing opportunity play
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
queens kings halloween
In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween!
believe dragons ifs
If you don't believe in dragons, It is curiously true That the dragons you disparage Choose to not believe in you.
halloween blood black
His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.
ideas two drawing
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
queens halloween night
She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.
eight
I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
writing challenges done
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
account anxious anybody bali extremely hour obviously people pressure relatives understand
I do understand how anybody who had relatives or friends in Bali is going to be extremely anxious and we are all the time, hour by hour, upgrading the staffing to take account of pressure people obviously feel.
cause concerned moment
I don't see anything at the moment to cause me to be unduly concerned
I don't see any last-day-of-the-year rebound. I think it will be more of the same tomorrow.
I don't see any end to the upward spiral.
seems
I don't see us getting weaned off of this. It seems to me that's way, way down the road.