Riding that current as far as it'll take you / A cage of sound / Entering the world through language / Language is more clay than stone / Writing for those moments of discovery / Gifts to be earned / Having the picture coalesce in a kind of whoosh! / A chorus of voices / Tricking the muse by taking out the trash / Brushed by an angel's wings / Going up is a place of great loneliness / Language is not enough / Not the shouted slogan but the whisper for help