I like to think these poems will be read by young
men who share this nature: I imagine them---
long-haired, clad in supple jeans or lounging pants;
shirtless and shoeless, their feet bare or sheathed in
quite attractive socks.
No imposed inhibitions interfere with
my purpose---to write the poems like I needed
during my youth (I was not even aware,
then, of Whitman's and Cavafy's poems of the
HomoErotic).
J-Called