Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.