 His first poem began with a rhyming couplet that was not his own - (forewarned by legends of my youth/i trust not an associate's truth..) and then he completed the poem with his own words which later appeared in Poems from a Peach Melba Hat.He regularly performed this first poem, because like much of his work, it was autobiographical.While in Turana he also discovered the writing of Ezra Pound which he claimed determined the course of his life.