II. things found here

Three themes:

First, looking back to make sense of the past, pervaded by a more and more vulnerable sense of my own personal presence in the poems, the presence of Long Beach, and images more true and less fabricated: hopefully poetry can help us heal.

Second, that depite the first, I would write more and more "I"-lessly. Meaning mostly that the word "I" would appear less and less.

Third, that joy would increasingly break through in my midst, that music would increasingly break through arduousness of content and doubt.

And lastly that images would prevail.