I deal with many layers and flavors of truth. For me, honesty in poetry is not about "The Truth" but about a truth, or a set of related truths. It is possible to examine an issue from different sides and describe conflicting truths. (For example, "Love is great" and "Love sucks" are both readily recognizable as true, for different circumstances.)

What I will not do, and resent when other poets do it, is deliberate falsehood or distortion of facts; or the attempted obliteration or damage to other people's truths.