A man has to make a living and making art and making a living are not conflicting interests per se: I believe that poetry, ideally, has its feet in the mud and its head in the clouds. Lately I've been picturing my works and myself in these terms; as poetry made by an artisan. Not too sure yet how that relates to Art made by an Artist, but I don't mind setting myself slightly apart from what is being taken for granted as Art and Artists.