Author name: Dan Swanson

When chips are down, which is your goal: to save your skin, or save your soul?

It’s no small thing To blaze your trail To take a swing To set your sail To charge the breach

If someone wants to gain respect, it helps to first have learned Respect that lasts is never bought, but rather

I don’t know how to help you. But if I did, I would. I don’t know how to stop you.

The greatest ideas Do not spring from screens; r Rely on your mind To know what life means.

I will not let computers choose the order of the words I use. I will not cede the thoughts I

I like to hope my final thought Won’t be about the stuff I’ve bought Or jokes I’ve made or clothes

My poems are composed in pursuit of a vision where rhymes are combined with harmonic precision for life is too

If the internet broke from a glitch or a curse, I’m no longer sure that our lives would be worse.

An editor’s a predator to all our perfect prose, but sometimes change helps best arrange the sterling words we chose.