Thanks Frank - being grouped with Marcus in a poetry context - is multilayered and quite a compliment! I don't engage as often as I like, as I read a majority of time on my phone. I started writing on Medium a month or two after you and I have half the amount of responses that you do. I am proud that they are just under 4x as many published articles.
I honestly don't mind the word follower. I follow someone or publications after I read something that grabs my intuition whether that is a bio, what the publication stands, or an article that aligns with my interest