The Importance of Grief in Poetry

There's a time when, at least for me, I was writing poems just to survive or just to not be doing other things that I couldn't achieve. And so here it is, this physical throwing flowers in the field, which is almost an act of mourning in many cultures and honoring the dead. It's kind of a poem in a way, you know, this irony of crafting a thing in language and then experience that at least forme is so much in the body grief.