I have written poetry since I was twelve years old inspired by an Irish teacher who introduced me to the wonderful world of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and others. At that time, I fell in love with the magic of words. I graduated from Chaminade College in Honolulu in East-West Philosophy. I taught middle school students in a small rural village in Korea after college. After then I went into the business world as a technical manager. A few years ago I retired from Kaiser Hospital’s IT department. I did return to Korea for another two and a half years with my wife and two daughters and worked in a Korean bank for Bank of America. My only formal poetry training was one class I audited in Hawaii given by Phyllis Thompson, the author of “Artichoke and other poemsâ€. Even now I wonder how the muse sneaks into the lamplight of my heart and joins me in a dance that unravels itself into the glory of air and the color of paper.