Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
I feel more helpless with you than without you.
A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.