“Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.” WritingPoetryFightingTraining Book:Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.” WritingFightingMartial ArtsOpen MindBjj Book:Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.” LifeWritingStoriesChanging Book:Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“Fighting and writing’s deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel.” WritingFeelingsFightingBeautyInstinct Book:Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.” LifeWritingPassionsInterests Book:Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet